Farley Matchett was executed by the State of Texas for the murder of Uries Anderson
According to court documents Farley Matchett would murder 74-year-old Melonee Josey with a meat hammer and the next day would murder 52 year old Uries Anderson. Both of the victims would be robbed as the killer searched for drug money. Matchett would also brutally attack a 91 year old woman for the same reason
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Farley Matchett would be executed by lethal injection on September 12 2006
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Farley Matchett was executed on September 12 2006
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Condemned prisoner Farley Charles Matchett was executed Tuesday for killing his uncle in July 1991 during three brutal days in which an elderly woman was killed and another seriously injured. In a brief final statement, Matchett expressed love to his family “for standing with me throughout this situation. Stay strong and know I am in a better place. I ask for forgiveness.”
He also asked the victim’s family to “find peace in your heart” with his death and move on. Matchett said a short prayer and then thanked his friends and pen pals. He was pronounced dead at 6:16 p.m.
At his trial, in 1993, Matchett, 43, pleaded guilty to capital murder, and a Harris County jury decided he should die for fatally stabbing and beating Uries Anderson, 52, of Houston. On a Web site devoted to his case, Matchett wrote that he pleaded guilty on the advice of his attorney, who said Matchett should be sentenced to life in prison. “He set me up to get the death sentence,” Matchett wrote.
Matchett, who lived in Huntsville and whose crack cocaine habit cost him as much as a $600 a day, also pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to life in prison for killing Melonee Josey, 74, of Huntsville, who refused his request for $10. He also agreed to a 99-year sentence for beating 91-year-old Ola Mac Williams of Huntsville, who was left with brain damage. The weapon in both those attacks was a hammer.
Evidence showed that he stole Josey’s car and drove to Houston, where an argument over his drug use led to a fight and Anderson’s slaying. On the Web site, Matchett wrote that the slaying was in self-defense — that in the fight his uncle grabbed a knife but that he pushed it back toward him. “It lodged in his chest, and he immediately fell,” Matchett said. An autopsy showed that Anderson died of stab wounds to the back, not chest, and a skull fracture caused by blows from a hammer.
The execution was the 21st this year in Texas.
