Texas inmate wants to die, Supreme Court gives OK

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to block the execution of a Texas inmate who ordered his appeals dropped so he could be put to death more quickly.

But attorneys for Daniel Lee Lopez say he has “obvious and severe mental illness”, which is responsible for his desire to use the legal system for suicide.

A spokesman for the TDCJ told the newspaper that Lopez’s organs would not be viable after his execution because the single dose of pentobarbital used for lethal injection effectively poisons the organs. It’s the first of two executions scheduled this week in Texas, the nation’s most active death penalty state.

Lt. Start Alexander was placing stop sticks at a highway exit when Lopez swerved toward the ramp.

One of Lopez’s final wishes was to donate his organs.

A Texas inmate convicted for killing a police officer was executed on Wednesday, after he waived his appeals, saying he wanted to die, prison officials and local media said.

Lopez later said he tried to flee because he thought there was a warrant out for his arrest for parole violations. “He had no moral scruples, no nothing”.

Convicted murderer Daniel Lee Lopez is scheduled to be executed in Huntsville Wednesday – and it’s exactly what he wanted.

“He’s a bad, bad guy”. Lopez had previously pleaded guilty to indecency with a child and was on probation.

After Lopez was apprehended, deputies found a dozen packets of cocaine and a small scale in a false compartment in the console of the SUV he was driving.

Testimony at his trial showed he had at least five children by three women, and a sixth was born while he was jailed for Alexander’s death. Court records show he had sex with girls as young as 14 and had a history of assaults and other trouble while in school, where he was a 10th-grade dropout. So I’m ready, right, “Lopez told the AP in 2011”.