Convicted killer Richard Cartwright was executed Thursday in Texas for the 1996 robbery and murder of a Corpus Christi man.
Cartwright was pronounced dead at 6:16 p.m. after receiving a lethal injection for the murder of Nick Moraida during a robbery that netted between $60 and $200.
In his final statement, Cartwright thanked his friends and family for their support.
"I want to apologize to the victim's family for the pain I caused them," he said. "And to everyone at the Polunsky Unit (death row), just keep you heads up and stay strong."
Cartwright and two accomplices lured Moraida to a park in Corpus Christi and robbed him of his wallet, watch and money, according to court records. Cartwright shot him in the back with a .38 caliber pistol after one of the other men stabbed him.
The two accomplices were sentenced to long prison terms.
Cartwright was the eighth convicted killer executed this year in Texas.
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