Johnathan Moore was executed by the State of Texas for the murder of a police officer
According to court documents San Antonio police officer Fabian Dominguez would see a burglary in progress and would pull up to the home. Johnathan Moore would shoot the officer multiple times causing his death
Johnathan Moore was arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Johnathan Moore was executed by lethal injection on January 17 2007
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Johnathan Moore was executed on January 17 2007
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A self-described fascist who adopted the dark punk and goth lifestyle was executed Wednesday for the slaying of a San Antonio police officer 12 years ago. Johnathan Moore repeatedly apologized to the officer’s widow. “It was done out of fear, stupidity and immaturity. It wasn’t until I got locked up and saw the newspaper; I saw his face and smile and I realized I had killed a good man.” Moore told Jennifer Morgan, who stood next to the death chamber window surrounded by comforting friends. He wished her happiness. He then counseled a friend who was a witness to quit using heroin and methadone. He told his father that he loved him.
He was pronounced dead at 6:21 p.m., eight minutes after the lethal dose of drugs began. Moore, 32, was the second condemned Texas prisoner executed this year and the second of five scheduled to die this month in the nation’s busiest capital punishment state.
Moore was convicted of gunning down Fabian Dominguez, 29, who interrupted Moore and two companions during the burglary of a house in the officer’s neighborhood in January 1995. Dominguez was returning home from his shift when he spotted a suspicious car in the driveway of the house and stopped to investigate. When he confronted Moore, seated in the passenger side of the car, Moore opened fire with a .25-caliber handgun. Moore also retrieved the officer’s service revolver and shot him three more times in the head. He was arrested the following day after leading police on a chase into Bandera County.
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to review Moore’s case last year. An appeal to stop the punishment by challenging the state’s lethal injection execution procedure was rejected Tuesday by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, and the Supreme Court then rejected a similar appeal about two hours before Moore’s execution. The San Antonio Police Officers Association chartered a bus so about two dozen officers could honor their fallen colleague while prison officials inside the Huntsville Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice carried out the punishment.
Moore is the first person convicted of killing a San Antonio police officer to go to the death chamber since the state resumed carrying out capital punishment in 1982. The two others with Moore the night of the shooting were arrested a short time after his arrest. Peter Dowdle, now 29, is serving a 25-year prison term. Paul Cameron, also 29, is serving life.
On a Web site, Moore said he “hung out with the Industrial, Punk and Goth scene” and described himself as “a full-blown fascist.” He added: “I have disappointed and let down everybody that has ever loved me.” Moore’s capital murder trial was hardly routine.
Following his conviction and before punishment testimony was to begin, he fired his lawyers so he could represent himself, then rehired them the following day. Before the trial, he had tried to escape from custody during a visit to a health clinic, grabbing a stun gun and a can of pepper spray hidden in a restroom and unsuccessfully trying to overpower a deputy guarding him. Authorities found a handcuff key inside a shoe in his cell.
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