Texas Executes Man Who Killed Truckers In Road Rage

[Tennesseer]

AUSTIN — Texas on Wednesday executed a man convicted of killing two truck drivers in a fit of road rage after one of the drivers pulled a truck in front of his motorcycle on the highway.




Douglas Feldman, 55, was pronounced dead by lethal injection at 6:28 p.m. (2328 GMT) at a state prison in Huntsville, Texas, according to prison officials.

Feldman was convicted of capital murder in 1999 for the shooting deaths of Robert Everett and Nick Velasquez, both 18-wheeler truck drivers who encountered Feldman on a highway north of Dallas in 1998, according to an account by the Texas Attorney General's Office.

Feldman's appeals included the argument that his trial lawyers were deficient, a juror was improperly dismissed, and the jury was given improper instruction. All those appeals were denied.

In his last statement, Feldman blamed his victims for crimes and said, "I hereby sentence them both to death, which I carried out in August 1998," according to a statement from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

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The murdered truckers made him shoot them.  See ya.