David harris wikipedia
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‘Thin Blue Line’ prisoner executed in Texas
A man whose false testimony sent an innocent man to death row before the 1988 documentary “The Thin Blue Line” cast doubt on the evidence was executed Wednesday for an unrelated murder.
“Sir, in honor of a true American hero: Let’s roll,” David Ray Harris said when asked if he had a final statement. “Let’s Roll” were the words a passenger was heard saying over a cell phone before attacking the hijackers aboard doomed Flight 93 on Sept. 11, 2001.
“Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. I’m done, warden,” Harris said.
With his eyes closed, he took a deep breath and gasped as the lethal drugs took effect.
Harris, 43, was sentenced to death for a 1985 shootout that killed Mark Mays after Harris tried to abduct the victim’s girlfriend.
He was the 10th Texas inmate executed this year.
A federal judge Tuesday had blocked the lethal injection procedure Texas uses for executions; the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the ruling Wednesday afternoon. The U.S. Supreme Court later rejected Harris’s appeals.
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31st murderer executed in U.S. in 2004
916th murderer executed in U.S. since 1976
10th murderer executed in Texas in 2004
323rd murderer executed in Texas since 1976
| David Ray Harris W / M / 24 - 43 | Mark Mays W / M / 30 |
Summary:
Armed with a .38 handgun, Harris broke into the apartment of Mark Mays in Beaumont as Mays and his girlfriend, Roxanne Lockard, slept in a bedroom. Harris awakened them and ordered Mays to lock himself in a hallway bathroom. He then led Lockard out the back door into his pickup truck. Mays was able to free himself, picked up a pistol, and confronted Harris in the parking lot. Both men exchanged fire. Mays was struck five times, the last from a distance of 12--24 inches, and died from his wounds. Harris was hit in the neck and arm, jumped in his truck, and fled. Lockard escaped unharmed. Harris was arrested 4 days later when he was pulled over for drunk driving.
Harris was court martialed and dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Arm
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David Harris
David Harris may refer to:
Academics and literature
- David Harris (activist) (1946–2023), American author, journalist and anti-war activist
- Dovid Harris (born 1945), American dean of the Rabbinical Seminary of America / Yeshiva Rabbi Israel Meir Hacohen (Chofetz Chaim)
- David R. Harris (geographer) (1930–2013), British academic geographer, anthropologist and archaeologist
- David R. Harris (sociologist), American sociologist, president of Union College, provost of Tufts University and former dean of Cornell University
- David W. Harris (1948–1994), Canadian experimental poet
Entertainment
Politics and government
- David B. Harris, Canadian former Security Intelligence Service planner and terrorism consultant
- David Bullock Harris (1814–1864), American Confederate States Army colonel during the American Civil War
- David Harris (Illinois politician) (born 1948), American former Adjutant General of Illinois (1999–2003) and member of the Illinois House of Representatives (1983–1993 and 2011–2019)
- David Courtenay Harris, Dominican judge o
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