Jamie McCoskey was executed by the State of Texas for the murder of Michael Dwyer
According to court documents Jamie McCoskey would kidnap Michael Dwyer and his girlfriend. Michael Dwyer would be murdered and the woman would be sexually assaulted
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Jamie McCoskey would be executed on November 13 2013 by lethal injection
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Jamie McCoskey was executed on November 13 2013
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A Dallas-area man stopped short of apologizing to the family of the man he stabbed to death 22 years ago before being executed Tuesday night.
Jamie Bruce McCoskey, 49, however, did say that there was one thing he would change about the night of Nov. 13, 1991 when he abducted and murdered 21-year-old Michael Keith Dwyer and raped Dwyer’s 19-year-old pregnant fiancé in Harris County.
“If I had it to do again I would change Dwyer’s parents’ suffering because I know they are,” McCoskey said. “I know that is not going to eliminate the pain because I have a child.”
After thanking people who supported him during “the best time” of his life while on death row because he had “been touched by an angel’s wings,” McCoskey told the warden he was “ready to go.” Before the lethal dose of pentobarbital kicked in, McCoskey had one final thing to say.
“There better not be a mix up here. I don’t want no stay,” he said with a laugh.
As the drug began flowing through his veins, McCoskey was struggling to breath and made snoring sounds. He was pronounced dead at 6:44 p.m., 25 minutes after the lethal dose was administered.
McCoskey is the 15th condemned inmate to be put to death in Texas this year. The U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year refused to review his case, and his attorneys filed no last-day appeals in the courts.
Evidence showed the couple had left the door of their apartment open while they were bringing home groceries and were confronted by the knife-wielding McCoskey exactly 22 years ago Wednesday.
He ordered them to their car, handcuffed Dwyer, drove around Houston and stopped at an abandoned ramshackle house where he raped the woman. She fled to a nearby home to seek help when she realized sounds she was hearing were of Dwyer being stabbed repeatedly.
Their car was found at an apartment complex where McCoskey once lived. Based on a description of the attacker, residents there identified McCoskey, whose 6-foot-7-inch height and square facial features had earned him the nickname “Lurch,” after the hulking Frankenstein-like servant to the fictional “Addams Family” television comedy of the 1960s.
His mother testified at his trial that McCoskey had an abusive childhood that led to behavioral problems. After stints in juvenile facilities, his offenses escalated as he reached adulthood.
Before reaching death row, he had a kidnapping conviction in Austin, assaults while in prison, marijuana possession busts and a jail term where records show he used a chisel to crack the skull of a fellow Harris County inmate.
He also was remembered for walking into the Houston courtroom the day after his capital murder conviction in 1992, grabbing a heavy oak chair and heaving it about 10 feet. It hit one prosecutor in the arm and grazed another before crashing into the jury box rail.
