Carl Wayne Buntion execution – Texas death row inmate to be killed tomorrow after parole board votes AGAINST clemency

A TEXAS death row inmate is set to be executed tomorrow after a desperate plea for clemency was rejected.

Carl Wayne Buntion, 78, is scheduled to be executed at 7pm ET on Thursday night for the 1990 murder of a Houston cop, according to KHOU.

Buntion shot police officer James Irby in the head and several more times as he was laying on the ground during a traffic stop.

Buntion’s lawyers argued the execution was “cruel and unusual punishment,” however the appeal for clemency was rejected unanimously 7-0 by a Texas parole board.

The 78-year-old man is one of the oldest people on death row in the US, and has battled multiple illnesses, according to anti-death penalty activists.

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