On June 27, 1990, Carl Wayne Buntion shot and killed Houston police officer James Irby during a routine traffic stop. Buntion, a career criminal with convictions dating back to 1961 and sentences totaling 105 years in prison, shot the motorcycle cop in the head, then stood over the fallen officer and shot him twice more in the back. Buntion had told people that, “If the police ever pull me over, I’m going to kill the officer because I’m not going back to prison.”
During the original trial in which Buntion was sentenced to death, this sorry piece of worthless shit claimed he shot Irby in self-defense because the officer had approached the car in which he had been riding with his service weapon drawn.
Now, some 22 years after the coldblooded murder of Officer James Irby, the punishment phase for Buntion, 68, is being retried. An appellate court had ordered the retrial because the jury that sentenced Buntion to death did not consider the mitigating evidence of his difficult childhood with an abusive father. His attorneys are arguing that his life should be spared because he has been a model prisoner while roosting on death row for over 20 years.
Buntion’s record of convictions for assaults, burglaries, a sexual assault and Irby’s murder were the result of an abusive childhood? Come on, give us a break! And he deserves to have his life spared because he has been a model prisoner on death row? What a crock of shit!
If his current jury resentences him to death, Buntion will probably roost another 10 years on death row pending resolution of the appeals that are sure to be filed in his behalf.
What we have here is a gross miscarriage of justice. Buntion, this sorry piece of worthless shit, should have been executed years ago, no ifs ands or buts about it!
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