And the state of Texas executed Johnny Ray Conner last night by lethal injection. Conner became the 400th person to be executed in Texas since the state resumed capital punishment in 1982. Texas is planning to execute three more men next week, including Kenneth Foster. Conner was convicted of killing a grocery store clerk named Kathyanna Nguyen. Shortly before his execution, Conner apologized to Nguyen’s daughter Marie. He told her, “I love you even though you don’t know me. I ask you to one day in your heart forgive me. What is happening to me is unjust, and the system is broken.” Johnny Ray Conner’s sister Diamond Alexander spoke to a reporter outside the prison.

Diamond Alexander: “Life in prison is a punishment for anyone who get that. That’s a true death sentence there.”

Reporter: “And so, for you, right now — you were telling me earlier that this is unnecessary. You were calling this barbaric.”

Diamond Alexander: “It is very barbaric. I can’t see how the person who’s doing the injection can have any peace at home and in his mind or in his conscience.”