Executed
Lonnie Earl Johnson
Lonnie Earl Johnson, a Black man aged 44, was executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas, on July 24, 2007, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. In his final statement he expressed love to a friend, saying it had been a joy and a blessing and asking that everyone be given his regards. His lawyers went to federal court arguing that prosecutors had withheld favorable evidence, a claim that prosecutors and state lawyers denied. The U.S. Supreme Court denied his appeals, and he was pronounced dead about eight minutes after the drugs began to flow.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: Texas Department of Criminal Justice (the agency that held him); his lawyers.