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January 19, 2018 16:58·
Anthony Allen Shore

Anthony Allen Shore

AUSTIN-In the first US execution of 2018, Texas on Thursday Jan. 19 put to death a man convicted of raping and murdering five girls and young women, using a tourniquet to torture and strangle his victims.

"No amount of words or apology could ever undo what I've done", Shore said while strapped to the death chamber stretcher.

Shore's appeal was turned down in early 2017 and the US Supreme Court refused to review his case in October.

Though he doesn't argue that his client is innocent or undeserving of punishment, Shore's lawyer, Knox Nunnally, said Wednesday that he was surprised Ogg continued to pursue the death penalty for Shore based on her previous statements on capital punishment.

After the high court ruled death row inmate Duane Buck should receive a new trial because an expert witness claimed he was more likely to be a future danger to society because he was black, Ogg offered a plea agreement in October to a sentence of life in prison rather than holding a new death penalty trial. They filed no last-minute attempts to try to halt his execution.

Shore's known victims are fourteen year-old Laurie Lee Tremblay, killed while walking to school in 1986, and Maria del Carmen Estrada, 21, murdered in April 1992. He told police in a taped interview played during the trial, "I didn't set out to kill her". "That was not my intent". He blamed the murder on voices in his head telling him he was "going to have her, regardless, to possess her in some way". He also admitted to the rape of another 14-year-old girl, but she managed to escape after he began choking her. Jurors also heard from three women who testified he raped them.

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Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg, who as an assistant prosecutor worked the then-unsolved Estrada case, said crime scene photos showed Estrada was tortured and had suffered as a stick was used to tighten a cord around her neck.

Shore's legal team pointed a year ago to a previously undisclosed traumatic brain injury, likely suffered in a 1981 vehicle accident, as a reason to stop his execution.

Sanchez's body was found after a caller to a Houston TV station provided directions on where to find it. Police believe Shore was the caller.

Before he was put to death, the 55-year-old Shore apologized and said he wished he could undo his past.

Though she has said the death penalty is "pure retribution", Ogg told the Texas Observer past year that she still believes in it.

Shore disclosed that a fellow prisoner on Texas' death row tried to get him to take responsibility for his crime, Montgomery County District Attorney Brett Ligon said at the time. Three more inmates are scheduled to die in Texas in the coming weeks.

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