Texas' oldest death row inmate, in solitary confinement for 20 years, is executed by lethal injection

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Texas' oldest death row inmate, in solitary confinement for 20 years, is executed by lethal injection
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Carl Buntion (78) shot and killed a police officer in 1990 while on parole for sexually assaulting a minor

An undated photo of Carl Wayne Buntion. Image: , according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Buntion was the oldest man on death row in Texas, the conservative southern state which puts more prisoners to death than any other American state.At that point he already had a long criminal record and was out on parole after a conviction for sexually assaulting a minor.In his final words at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, released by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Buntion said he wanted Irby’s family to know one thing: “I do have remorse for what I did.

“I’m sorry that someone died but I didn’t think of him as a person, I just thought of him as a thing, as a cancer on the face of my family,” Irby’s widow, Maura Irby, said during a press conference after the execution.

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