Texas Death Row Inmate Brent Brewer Faces Execution for 1990 Amarillo Murder
Brent Brewer, who has spent three decades on death row, is scheduled to be executed for the 1990 murder of Robert Laminack. Brewer's legal team requested a lesser penalty, citing unreliable testimony and a juror's misunderstanding of the jury instructions. The U.S. Supreme Court has yet to rule on the request to pause the execution. Brewer was previously sentenced to death in 1991, but the U.S. Supreme Court found his jury was not given sufficient opportunity to consider a less severe punishment. Jurors in Texas have expressed confusion over instructions, with some saying they would have chosen life sentences without parole if they had known it was an option.