Texas executes man in ’94 killings

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A twice-convicted killer with a history of violence that continued even after he was sent to death row was executed Tuesday for gunning down two video store workers during a 1994 robbery.

“I love all y’all. I forgive all y’all. See y’all when you get there,” Leon David Dorsey IV said in his final statement. “Do what you’re going to do.”

Dorsey, 32, acknowledged his sister when witnesses filed in but didn’t direct any comments to the relatives of his victims.

He was pronounced dead at 6:27 p.m. CDT, nine minutes after the lethal drugs began to flow.

The U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year upheld his conviction and death sentence and no late appeals were filed to try to block Dorsey’s lethal injection.

Prison records showed that since Dorsey arrived on death row eight years ago, he’s had at least 95 disciplinary cases, including a 2004 attack where he used an 81‚Ñ2-inch shank to stab an officer 14 times in the back. The officer’s body armor prevented serious injuries.

Less than two weeks ago, authorities recovered another shank from his cell. His threats of violence kept prison officials from making him available for media interviews as his execution date approached, but prison officials said he offered no resistance as he was led to the death chamber.

“He’s mean,” said Toby Shook, a former Dallas County assistant district attorney who prosecuted Dorsey for capital murder. He called Dorsey a “true psychopath.”

Dorsey was already serving a 60-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to killing a woman during a convenience store robbery when a Dallas police cold case squad gathered enough evidence to tie him to the unsolved shooting deaths of James , 26, and Brad Lindsey, 20, at a Blockbuster Video store in East Dallas where they worked.