Jeffrey Doughtie was executed by the State of Texas for a double murder
According to court documents Jeffrey Doughtie would go to a Corpus Christi antiques shop where he would beat to death Jerry and Sylvia Dean. Later the same week Doughtie would beat to death a 75 year old woman during a robbery
Jeffrey Doughtie would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Jeffrey Doughtie would be executed by lethal injection on August 16 2001
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Jeffrey Doughtie was executed on August 16 2001
Jeffrey Doughtie Case
Convicted killer Jeffery Doughtie was executed today for using a metal pipe to fatally beat an elderly couple at their Corpus Christi antiques shop after they refused to give him money to support his $400-a-day drug habit.
“For about nine years, I’ve thought about the death penalty, if it’s right or wrong. I don’t have the answer. But I don’t think this world is a safer place without me in it,” Doughtie said while strapped to the gurney in the death chamber.
He said the punishment should have been carried out much sooner.
“Killing me now ain’t hurting me. It gave me time to say goodbye to my family,” he said.
He looked toward some friends watching through a nearby window, expressed love and thanked them.
Doughtie’s execution attracted none of the attention that 24 hours earlier accompanied the scheduled punishment for another Texas death row inmate, Napoleon Beazley. Beazley, now 25, was 17 when he was arrested for killing the father of a federal appeals court judge in Tyler, and his punishment renewed the debate over the execution of offenders who were teen-agers at the time of their crime.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, acting on an appeal from Beazley’s attorneys, stopped the inmate’s lethal injection less than four hours before it was set to take place.
Doughtie was the 12th inmate put to death this year in Texas, where a record 40 executions were carried out last year.
