Execution Report: David Long

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A jury convicted Long of capital murder in February 1987 and sentenced him to death. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the conviction and sentence in December 1991. All of his subsequent appeals in state and federal court were denied.

On death row, Long said that he killed the women because "they objected to my drinking. I just got tired of hearing all the bickering."

Two days before his execution, Long was treated at the prison hospital for an overdose of prescription anti-depressants that prison officials believed he had been hoarding in his cell.

"I'm real sorry for it," Long said at his execution. "I can't really pinpoint where it started," he said of his violent nature, but he referred to his upbringing in California institutions. "I was in their reformatory schools and penitentiary, but they create monsters in there." As the lethal injection took effect, Long snorted and gurgled. A blackish-brown liquid spouted from his nose and mouth. A prison spokesman said that the liquid was a solution he received as treatment for his drug overdose two days earlier.

By David Carson. Posted on 3 October 2002. Updated to correct Daphne Jester's relationship to Donna Jester on 25 May 2019.
Sources: Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Texas Attorney General's Office, Associated Press.