HUNTSVILLE, Texas, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- A man executed for killing a Houston drug dealer said prior to his lethal injection that he wanted his victim's family to know peace.
The Houston Chronicle reported former oil field worker Stephen Moody, who was convicted in 1992 of fatally shooting Joseph Hall during a robbery on Oct. 19, 1991, offered no apologies for his crimes before his execution Wednesday.
"I can only ask that you have the peace that I do," Moody said of Hall's mother and son in his last statement Wednesday.
After being convicted, Moody passed up an appeal to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and petitioned a judge to move up his execution date.
Moody, 52, also claimed in a sworn statement that Calvin Doby, the other man convicted in Hall's death, is innocent. That statement led to a new appeal being filed for Doby, who was sentenced to life in prison for the 1991 crime.
The Chronicle said Moody, who admitted to undergoing a religious conversion while incarcerated, was the 17th convicted killer executed in Texas this year.
