Matt Dougherty stood outside the Texas death chamber in Huntsville and described a scene that was both heavy and strangely quiet, the kind of moment where people speak softly because even normal volume feels disrespectful.
In his KHOU 11 report, Dougherty said Charles Victor Thompson used his final statement to apologize for the murders that put him on death row, and he directed part of that message toward the families of the two people he killed back in 1998.
Thompson was 55 when the state executed him, Dougherty noted, but he was 27 when he went to his ex-girlfriend’s home in Houston and turned a relationship breakup into a double killing that still echoed nearly three decades later…