Jamie McCoskey was put to death on the 22nd anniversary of the murder for which he was convicted
Jamie McCoskey, 49, was executed Tuesday evening, becoming the 15th convicted murderer to be put down by the State of Texas so far this year. He had been convicted of stabbing a man to death exactly 22 years ago today.
On November 13, 1991, Michael Dwyer,21, and his pregnant fiancé had just come home and were putting up groceries. Unfortunately, they had left the door to their Houston apartment open. A knife-wielding McCoskey confronted them and ordered them back to their car. He handcuffed Dwyer and drove the couple to an abandoned house. The pregnant woman was raped, but she was able to flee to a neighboring house afterwards. When she fled, McCoskey stabbed Dwyer nearly two dozen times.
Dwyer's mother was in the execution chamber witness room. While strapped down on the gurney, McCoskey looked at her and said: “The way she is looking at me right now, no way she would accept an apology. If she could, she would shoot me.”
According to the Associated Press, McCoskey had a prior kidnapping conviction, assaults while in prison, arrests for possession of marijuana and “a jail term where records show he used a chisel to crack the skull of a fellow Harris County inmate.” He also walked into the courtroom the day after his conviction in 1992, “grabbing a heavy oak chair and heaving it about 10 feet. It hit one prosecutor in the arm and grazed another before crashing into the jury box rail.” That was just before the jury entered the courtroom for the start of the sentencing phase of his trial.
McCoskey was put to death with a single lethal dose of pentobarbital. Good riddance!
One more execution is scheduled this year (December 3).
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