HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas man was put to death Wednesday evening for killing his parents at their Lubbock home 15 years ago during a drug-influenced rampage that also left his 89-year-old grandmother dead. Michael Yowell, 43, told witnesses, including his daughters and his ex-wife, that he loved them. "Punch the button," he told the warden. He took several deep breaths, then began snoring. Within about 30 seconds, all movement stopped. RELATED: TEXAS USING CUSTOM-MADE DRUG TO EXECUTE CRIMINALS: FOIA REQUEST His daughters and ex-wife hugged as they watched through a window in the death chamber. Yowell was pronounced dead 19 minutes later at 7:11 p.m. CDT. Yowell tried to delay his execution, the 14th this year in the nation's most active death penalty state, by joining a lawsuit with two other condemned prisoners that challenged Texas prison officials' recent purchase of a new supply of pentobarbital for his scheduled lethal injection. The punishment was delayed briefly until the U.S. Supreme Court, in a brief ruling, rejected the appeal.
The prisoners argued use of the sedative could cause unconstitutional pain and suffering because the drug, replacing a similar inventory that expired at the end of September, was made by a compounding pharmacy not subjected to strict federal scrutiny. (???)
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/texas-man-executed-killing-parents-article-1.1481170
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