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Texas kills

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

In a case marred by ugly racial overtones, Texas Thursday night executed Carlton Turner for killing his adoptive parents in their suburban Dallas home 10 years ago. “I was immature and arrogant,” Turner told the AP in a death-row interview in May. “I look at life as it is, that these are the cards I’m dealt with. To tell the truth, I’m not sad at all.” He said he shot his father, 43-year-old Carlton Turner Sr., in self-defense after repeated instances of abuse, and then killed his 40-year-old mother, Tonya, because “I felt my mother couldn’t live without my father.” He blamed the killings on anger and hatred and said he was sorry. “I still loved them,” he said. “What I did was wrong...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on July 10, 2008 (boomark / email).