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       ~ Christopher Young, 17Jul18, (TX) ~
   DIR By: BuzzC
       Date: July 17, 2018, 11:27 pm
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       Texas executes inmate convicted in 2004 murder of San Antonio
       store owner--
       Tuesday, July 17, 2018
       HUNTSVILLE, Texas –  A Texas prisoner was executed Tuesday
       evening for the fatal shooting of a San Antonio convenience
       store owner after courts turned down appeals that the state
       parole board improperly rejected the inmate's clemency request
       because he's black.
       Christopher Young, 34, never denied the slaying, which was
       recorded on a store surveillance camera, but insisted he was
       drunk and didn't intend to kill 53-year-old Hasmukh "Hash" Patel
       during an attempted robbery after drinking nearly two dozen
       beers and then doing Coke that Sunday morning, Nov. 21, 2004.
       As the lethal dose of the sedative pentobarbital began taking
       effect, he twice used an obscenity to say he could taste it and
       that it was burning.
       "I taste it in my throat," he said.
       As he slipped into unconsciousness, he said something
       unintelligible and began taking shallow breaths. He stopped
       moving within about 30 seconds and was pronounced dead at 6:38
       p.m. CDT.
       Twenty-five minutes had passed since he was first given the
       lethal drug.
       Young became the eighth prisoner put to death this year in
       Texas, one more than all of 2017 in the nation's busiest capital
       punishment state.
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