Prosecutors urge death for cop-killer Buntion
By Brian Rogers, Houston Chronicle
Updated 09:01 p.m., Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Prosecutors told jurors Tuesday that "career criminal" Carl Wayne Buntion should be sentenced to death for fatally shooting a Houston police officer more than 20 years ago.
"He said, 'If the police ever pull me over, I'm going to kill the officer,' because he wasn't going back to prison," Assistant District Attorney Lance Long told jurors in Buntion's capital murder retrial.
Defense lawyers, meanwhile, urged the jury to spare Buntion's life, saying his behavior in prison had been exemplary.
Long recited a litany of Buntion's convictions beginning in 1961, including assaults, burglaries and a sexual assault. The prosecutor contrasted the total time Buntion, 68, had served with the total duration of his sentences.
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