Travis Mullis was executed 16 years after killing his infant son and leaving the body on the side of Galveston's Seawall Boulevard.
HUNTSVILLE —The state of Texas executed Travis Mullis on Tuesday night, 16 years after he killed his infant son and left the body on the side of Galveston 's Seawall Boulevard . Mullis said before his death that he regretted his decision to kill his son, but extolled the ability of people to be rehabilitated in prison. ' not the men we were when came into the system,' Mullis said. 'We have changed. We are not the same.
Travis Mullis, convicted of stomping his baby son to death in 2008, to be executed Tuesday Mullis' final days were mostly spent sleeping and watching TV, according to a summary of his activity provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. He refused to speak to his attorneys on Tuesday, and said he didn't plan to issue any statements over any last-minute efforts to stop his death, according to TDCJ officials.
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