For 2006 Texas executes man slaying of Dallas real estate agent
Texas put to death a man who fatally stabbed a suburban Dallas real estate agent more than 16 years ago on Wednesday, the second execution this year in what has been the nation’s busiest death penalty state. 41 years old, Kosoul Chanthakoummane, received a lethal injection at the state prison in Huntsville and was pronounced dead at 6:33 pm. In July 2006 he was convicted of fatally stabbing and shooting 40-year-old Sarah Walker. More than 30 times in a model home in McKinney she was found stabbed about 30 miles north of Dallas. Chanthakoummane, after being strapped to the death chamber gurney, made a short statement thanking Jesus Christ, Texas prison officials and all the people in his life who helped me on this journey. He offered a message to them: “I pray my death brings them peace”, although none of Walker’s relatives attended the execution. Through his IV lines into his veins the powerful sedative pentobarbital started to flow. He looked at a window through where his mother was q...