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Supremes deny appeal, execution to commence
Set for after 10:20 p.m.
The execution of DaRoyce Mosley will be carried out Tuesday night after the U.S. Supreme Court denied Mosley’s final appeal.
For more than 4 hours, the execution — which usually happens just after 6 p.m. — was stalled as the court considered Mosley’s appeal filed Tuesday.
Mosley petitioned the court in a last-minute appeal claiming his innocence in the 1994 slaying of a bar patron in Kilgore, some 25 miles west of Tyler.
The nation’s highest court turned down Mosley’s appeal just after 10 p.m.
Mosley did not request a last meal before he made his way to the execution chamber. He spent the afternoon with a TDCJ chaplain.
TDCJ spokesperson Jason Clark said that Mosley was “calm and collected” Tuesday afternoon.
“He listened intently to what the warden had to say,” Clark said, “(and) he indicated that he would like to make a last statement.”
After Mosley’s conflicting statements to police after the crime, Mosley has to that point maintained his innocence.
“Due to the fact that I am asking for ... an innocent life to be saved, I don’t feel that I am asking for too much at all,” Mosley wrote in a letter to friends in 2002. “I had to settle for attorneys who were not as skilled and didn’t even come close to competing with the many advantages the state attorneys had.”
Mosley didn't deny walking into the Kilgore bar intending to rob the place, but insisted his uncle who accompanied him was responsible for the slayings 13 years ago. The uncle, Ray Don Mosley, now 44, took a plea bargain and is serving life in prison.
DaRoyce Mosley said he wrongly confessed to the slayings of Patricia Colter, 54; her husband, Duane, 44; Alvin Waller, 54; and Luva Congleton, 68. Sandra Cash, then 32, who worked at Katie's Lounge in Kilgore, was shot in the spine but was able to call police.
