Stacey Lawton was executed by the State of Texas for the murder of Dennis Price
According to court documents Stacey Lawton was breaking into a vehicle belonging to Dennis Price. When Dennis Price came out to confront him he was fatally shot
Stacey Lawton would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Stacey Lawton would be executed by lethal injection on November 14 2000
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When Was Stacey Lawton Executed
Stacey Lawton was executed on November 14 2000
Stacey Lawton Case
exas Attorney General John Cornyn offers the following information on Stacey Lamont Lawton who is scheduled to be executed after 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 14th, 2000.
Lawton was convicted and sentenced to death for murdering 47-year-old Dennis Price. Lawton gunned down Price in his front yard on Christmas Eve of 1992, as he was breaking into Price’s truck looking for property to steal. Lawton and his two co-defendants, Karlos Fields and Carlos Black had been involved in a crime spree on December 23rd and 24th of 1992, where they broke into and stole property from numerous cars in Price’s neighborhood and around Smith County. The murder of Dennis Price was part of that crime spree.
In the early morning hours of December 24th, 1992, Lawton and co-defendant Carlos Black approached Price’s truck and began to burglarize it. Price’s daughter heard Lawton and Black and alerted Price to what was happening. When Price came out of his house, Lawton shot him in the chest with a shotgun he had stolen in an earlier burglary. Lawton and Black then ran back to the stolen truck they were in and fled the scene. Price died in his daughter’s arms as she was trying to give him CPR.
Lawton and his co-conspirators were caught by police after a high speed chase. A witness described the stolen truck that fled from the crime scene and a DPS trooper later caught the group and arrested them. Lawton told police that Karlos Fields and Carlos Black were cousins and that as they all discussed carrying out the crime spree, Fields and Black openly agreed to not tell on each other, only Lawton, if something happened.
EVIDENCE
Police chased Lawton and his co-defendant as they fled from the crime scene. A witness who saw Lawton and his co-defendants flee the neighborhood was able to give police a description of the stolen truck they were in. Karlos Fields, Lawton’s co-defendant, testified at trial that Lawton was the man who gunned down Dennis Price. Fields also testified that prior to the group carrying out the crime spree, that Lawton told the group he would shoot anyone who came out of a house, interfering with a burglary. Several witnesses testified that the cars driven by Lawton and his co-defendants were at the scenes of various burglaries that night. One witness testified that one of Lawton’s co-defendant’s had pointed a shotgun at her window earlier in the evening.
http://www.oag.state.tx.us/newspubs/releases/2000/20001101lawtonfacts.htm
