Carman Deck, who was condemned to death following a double murder conviction and three trials, was executed Tuesday evening in Bonne Terre, Missouri, by lethal injection.
Deck was accused of fatally shooting James and Zelma Long in the back of the head and robbing them in 1996, when he was 30 years old. Police said he confessed to the killings, but Deck's defense argued at trial it was a false confession.Deck's first conviction was overturned on appeal due to an error in jury instructions.
Elizabeth Carlyle, an attorney for Deck, called his execution"unjust and immoral," saying Deck"endured a pattern of abuse, neglect and abandonment, which was mitigating evidence the Missouri Supreme Court called 'substantial.'"Close family members taught him to steal, the attorney said, leading to a prison sentence which"transformed him from a nonviolent thief into the person who committed two terrible murders," the attorney said in a statement.
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