David Brown was executed by the State of Oklahoma for the murder of Eldon Lee McGuire
According to court documents David Brown was arrested after threatening and taking a dozen people hostage at his ex wives hair salon. Somehow Brown was given bond an he would disappear for a year. Brown would come back and fatally shoot his ex father in law Eldon Lee McGuire
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David Brown would be executed by lethal injection on March 9 2004
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David Brown was executed on March 9 2004
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David Jay Brown criticized appeals courts just before the state of Oklahoma put him to death Tuesday for the 1988 murder of his former wife’s father. “I want to tell y’all people that the state and federal courts that works on our cases, specifically on our appeals, are nothing but a bunch of morons, specifically the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals and the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals,” Brown, 49, said in a final statement. “My records prove this.”
Just 19 minutes before his scheduled execution, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request filed Monday by attorney Gary Peterson to review Brown’s case, the last of a series of appeals.
Brown was convicted in the Feb. 19, 1988, murder of his ex-father-in-law, 47-year-old Eldon McGuire. He spent 15 years on Oklahoma’s death row. Before the execution at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary began, the lawyers Brown had invited as witnesses filed silently into the room. Accordion-style blinds rose, showing Brown as he lay on a gurney. After his statement, he jerked his head to the left to see his lawyers, including Peterson, and said, “That’s it. Let’s go.” Brown closed his eyes and sighed deeply after the lethal injections were administered at 6:04 p.m. His chest heaved up and down several times. He was pronounced dead at 6:07 p.m.
Brown claimed in his trial and throughout his appeals that he killed McGuire in self-defense. Brown testified in Grady County District Court that he was trying to run out of McGuire’s house when McGuire shot at him and he blindly shot back. Senior Assistant Attorney General Sandy Rinehart disputed the self-defense claim, citing testimony that Brown touched his gun to the top of McGuire’s head when he shot McGuire.
McGuire’s only daughter, Lee Ann, and Brown were married for six stormy months in 1983 before she divorced him. Following the marriage, Brown threatened the family several times. Two of McGuire’s cousins, Allen McGuire and Jeff McGuire, witnessed the execution. Eldon McGuire’s wife, Ann, and daughter, Lee Ann, were on vacation and did not see Brown die. “The family is just really glad this is over,” Allen McGuire said. “It should have been over a long time ago.” This was Brown’s fourth execution date. Allen McGuire said Brown had an easier death than Eldon McGuire. “We think he (Brown) got what he deserved,” Allen McGuire said. “We’ll put it behind us and go on.”
Brown’s was the third execution in Oklahoma this year. For his last meal, Brown ate barbecue beef with hot sauce and onion, two large orders of french fries and a vanilla malt.
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