Tracy Beatty executed in Texas for 2003 murder of his mother and burrying body in backyard

A Texas convict, Tracy Beatty was executed by lethal injection for killing his mother and burying her body in the garden in 2003. Beatty was executed despite claiming he had suffered from a mental illness. He was 61 years old and was executed at a Huntsville jail.

He was convicted guilty of murder in the November 2003 shooting death of his mother, Carolyn Click, at her house in East Texas. Tracy Beatty's is the 13th person in the United States this year to be executed and the fourth in Texas.

Tracy Beatty, whose mother was 62 years old and lived in a mobile home, was accused by authorities of spending her money on drugs and alcohol before burying her body near her home in Whitehouse, some 115 miles southeast of Dallas.

Beatty's lawyers filed a petition with the US Supreme Court to delay the execution on Wednesday morning, but the court denied the petition.



On Monday, Beatty's legal team asked the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to modify his death sentence to a lesser punishment or give him a six-month respite.

His attorneys had contended that he should be given a full assessment to establish whether or not he suffers from intellectual deficiencies and, as a result, should be spared the death sentence.

FAQs:

1. Why is Beatty executed?
   Beatty is executed for murdering his mother and burning her in the backyard.
2. When did Beatty kill his mother?
   He strangled his mother to death on November 2003.