Overview
- Thompson, 55, was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. CST Wednesday after a lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
- He was convicted for the April 1998 shootings of ex-girlfriend Dennise Hayslip, 39, and her boyfriend Darren Cain, 30, at Hayslip’s apartment near Houston.
- In final remarks, Thompson apologized and asked the families for forgiveness, as relatives and Harris County prosecutors described the execution as closing a long chapter.
- Defense filings argued Hayslip died from flawed medical care and raised confrontation-rights claims, but courts rejected those arguments and a clemency request was denied.
- Thompson’s original death sentence was vacated before a 2005 resentencing; days later he escaped the Harris County Jail and was recaptured in Shreveport, Louisiana.