Steven Michael Woods Jr., 31, was pronounced dead at 6:22 p.m., 10 minutes after the lethal injection dose began. It was the 10th execution carried out in Texas this year. Steven was convicted under a controversial Texas law that allows a defendant to be put to death for a murder someone else committed. "You're not about to witness an execution. You are about to witness a murder," Woods said before he was injected. "I am strapped down for something Marcus Rhodes did. I never killed nobody, ever," he said. "Justice has let me down. Somebody completely screwed this up. Well, Warden, if you're going to murder someone, go ahead and do it. Pull that trigger." Earlier Tuesday, the state's high court rejected a stay of execution. May he rest in peace.
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