Execution Report: Larry Wooten

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A jury convicted Wooten of capital murder in May 1998 and sentenced him to death. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the conviction and sentence in January 2002. All of his subsequent appeals in state and federal court were denied.

According to former Lamar County district attorney Kerye Ashmore, who prosecuted Wooten's case, Wooten was also a person of interest in the slaying of another elderly woman in Paris, who was killed a couple of weeks before the Alexanders.

In an interview from death row about a month before his execution, Wooten claimed that he did not kill the Alexanders. He said he went to their home and found their bodies, then fled. "If I call the cops, they'll think I done it. I walked away. I didn't tell anybody. I thought they would pin it on me, and that's exactly what they did."

Wooten's execution was attended by his two sisters. No one from the Alexander family attended.

"I don't have nothing to say," Wooten said in his last statement. You can go ahead an send me home to my heavenly father." Wooten cried when the lethal injection was started. He was pronounced dead at 6:21 p.m.

By David Carson. Posted on 25 October 2010.
Sources: Texas Attorney General's office, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, court documents, public records, Associated Press.