“…Johnson’s allegations have the ring of truth to my ears which means he killed in self-defense... In any other state, Lonnie would have gotten a retrial.”

~Karl Keys, CapitalDefenseWeekly.com after reading our Petition for Relief

 

Lonnie was offered a ride by two teenage boys in August 1990, as they started driving in the wrong direction one of the teens stuck a gun to his side and told him that "this was the end of the ride, Nigger." They ordered him out of the car, kicked him repeatedly and urinated on him. Lonnie grabbed the gun during a lull and killed both teenagers. Though Lonnie was able to defend his life during this hate crime, the State of Texas wrongfully executed him for the “double murder” of his two attackers.

Ignoring the Stand Your Ground Law, the State of Texas decided that Lonnie’s self-defense was a fatal assault of two young men. He was convicted of “unprovoked murder/robbery” and sentenced to death. Lonnie was denied any attempts of post-conviction relief or appeal by the State of Texas Courts stating that evidence, which was originally hidden by the Texas District Attorney, was not new, so there was no need for retrial. Lonnie Earl Johnson was executed on July 24, 2007.