Lonnie Earl Johnson was executed this evening for the fatal shootings of Sean Fulk Schulz...

Lonnie Earl Johnson was executed this evening for the fatal shootings of Sean Fulk Schulz, 16, and his friend Leroy McCaffrey Jr., 17.
He was pronounced dead at 6:44 p.m..
Johnson, 44, didn't deny killing Schulz and McCaffrey and taking their pickup truck on Aug. 15, 1990, but had insisted the slayings were in self-defense after the pair pulled a gun and made racial threats against him. Johnson is black, his 2 victims white.
Johnson becomes the 19th condemned inmate to be put to death this year and the 398th overall since the state resumed capital punishment on December 7, 1982.
Death penalty opponents noted Johnson is the 100th person executed after being given a death sentence by a Harris County jury. The total for the county is more than any other state except Texas; Virginia has carried out 98 executions (also since 1982).
Johnson becomes the 31st condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1088th overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977.