On this date, August 23, 2000, David
Earl Gibbs was executed by lethal injection in Texas. He was convicted of
murdering two women on July 1, 1985. Let us hear from one of the victims’
brother.
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David
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SUMMARY:
David Earl Gibbs was convicted and sentenced to death for the July 1985 murder
of 29 year-old Marietta Bryant. Gibbs raped and murdered Bryant and her
roommate, Carol Ackland. Gibbs worked and lived at the Conroe, Texas apartment
complex where Bryant and Ackland lived. Both women were outpatients of the
Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation. Gibbs confessed after
his fingerprints were found at the scene and human blood found on his boots. In
his statement, Gibbs stated:"While I was having sex with her, I cut her
throat. I don't know why I did it." Next, he raped Bryant and slashed her throat
with a butcher knife, and ransacked the place to make it look like the women
were killed in a burglary. Gibbs was previously convicted of theft robbery and
burglary, and on parole after early release at the time of the murders. In
1990, while in jail for Ms. Bryant's rape and murder, Gibbs was also convicted
of voluntary manslaughter for killing another death row inmate, Calvin
Williams. Gibbs received a 20 year sentence for that homicide.
QUOTE: Afterwards, Mickey Bryant told a reporter, "the apology doesn't cover the crime that he committed.
He needed to die for that crime. But, I did appreciate the statement and the
fact that in his mind, he has been forgiven as best as I understood it and I
hope that's the case. The Lord will judge in the end, and whether or not he
truly repented as was forgiven, in my mind, he paid the price he needed to pay.
I guess if I was a vindictive person, I would think that he should die in the
way that he murdered Marietta ... (but) we live in a humane society and that's
the humane way to do it."
AUTHOR: Mickey Bryant whose sister, Marietta Bryant was
murdered by David Earl Gibbs on July 1, 1985. David Earl Gibbs was executed by
lethal injection in Texas on August 23, 2000.
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