Vernon Sattiewhite was executed by the State of Texas for the murder of Sandra Sorrell
According to court documents Vernon Sattiewhite and Sandra Sorrell had ended their relationship. Sorrell had reported to police that Sattiewhite was threatening her but nothing was done. Sattiewhite would grab Sandra Sorrell outside of her nursing school and drug her across the street where he would shoot her twice in the head causing her death
Vernon Sattiewhite would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Vernon Sattiewhite would be executed by lethal injection on August 15 1995
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Vernon Sattiewhite Case
A Texas man who stalked his ex- girlfriend and then fatally shot her in the head was executed early Tuesday. Vernon Lamar Sattiewhite, 39, was pronounced dead by lethal injection at 12:25 a.m. for the June 1986 death of Sandra Sorrell in San Antonio.
He was the 13th inmate put to death in Texas this year. Just moments before his death, Sattiewhite turned his head toward a group of witnesses in the state prison at Huntsville and mentioned his lawyer, Nancy Barohn, who as late as Monday fought to stop the execution. ‘I want to thank my lawyer, Nancy, for being on my case and for being here with me now,’ he said.
Appeals for a stay based on grounds that Sattiewhite was mentally incompetent to be executed were denied Monday by Texas and federal courts. Sorrell was walking to a nursing school near downtown San Antonio when Sattiewhite grabbed her in a headlock, pulled her across a parking lot and shot her twice in the head with a .22-caliber pistol, according to trial testimony. For more than a month before the slaying, she had been calling police and the Bexar County district attorney’s office in an effort to keep Sattiewhite away from her, the testimony said.
After shooting her, Sattiewhite tried to shoot himself but the gun misfired, witnesses said. Sattiewhite may be the last Texas Death Row inmate to die in an early morning execution, prison officials said. A law that takes effect Sept. 1 requires all executions to take place between 6 p.m. and midnight.
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