James Lowery was executed by the State of Indiana for a double murder
According to court documents James Lowery was employed by the two victims, Mark and Gertrude Thompson, but was fired for incompetence. Lowery and an accomplice would return to the Thompson residence where he would shoot and kill the elderly couple before robbing the home
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James Lowery would be executed by lethal injection on June 27 2001
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James Lowery was executed on June 27 2001
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Indiana Wednesday executed convicted double-murderer James Lowery by lethal injection for the 1979 murders of an elderly couple in the third execution in the state since June 11.
Lowery, who was convicted of the robbery-murder of Mark and Gertrude Thompson, was declared dead at 12:29 a.m. as 45 pro- and anti-death penalty protesters demonstrated outside the Indiana State Prison.
Corrections spokeswoman Pam Pattison said Lowery spent much of Tuesday night sleeping after the U.S. Supreme Court and the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to intervene.
Lowery gave his attorneys a lengthy, handwritten statement that they read to reporters after the execution. The condemned man made no verbal statement inside the execution chamber.
“First, I want to express how wrong it was, what I did to Mark and Gertrude Thompson and Janet Brown,” Lowery wrote. “I have tried since that day to try to keep doing the right thing, but I know nothing I can do would make up for my actions that awful night 22 years ago.
“The Thompsons should have been allowed to live out their remaining years in peace and then allowed to die with dignity. Janet Brown should not have had to live her life in fear. I am so very sorry.”
Lowery thanked the corrections officers at the prison for showing him “if you show respect, you can get respect.”
He also talked about how he was victimized at the Norman Beatty State Mental Hospital and urged Gov. Frank O’Bannon to take action to protect the state’s children. Lowery, 54, told the parole board he had been raped repeatedly by employees when he lived at the facility.
Lowery was the third inmate put to death in Indiana since June 11. The federal government earlier this month executed Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and drug kingpin Juan Raul Garza at the federal prison near Terre Haute.
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