HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A man whose cross-country crime spree with his girlfriend a decade ago ended in a gun battle with police in San Francisco was executed Thursday for killing a sheriff's officer.
Thirty-one-year-old Joshua Maxwell, his voice breaking, apologized repeatedly in the seconds before the state put him to death for the October 2000 slaying of Bexar County sheriff's Sgt. Rudy Lopes.
Maxwell said killing him for Lopes' death was "creating more victims" and "is not gonna change anything."
The U.S. Supreme Court last week refused to review Maxwell's case. He also was convicted of killing a man in Indiana a month before Lopes' slaying.
Lopes was robbed of his truck and shot. His bound and blindfolded body was found behind a San Antonio shopping mall.
