I try not to worry about things I can't
change. Kenneth Allen McDuff has the
right to appeal.
Is there a death sentence?
But the parents of 17 year old Robert
Brand say McDuff has had enough
chances.
I think they are given the injection
right now, not even that.
Even another appeal at Frank's Place
and Alvarado Family Restaurant, Louise
and Jack Brand talk of how McDuff has
hurt their family and about their anger
with the state of Texas for not carrying
out his punishment years ago.
They blame the parole board for allowing
others to become McDuffee victims,
you
know, in advance to
get out on parole, go back home
and go back on parole again,
and you'll get another third
death. And it
kind of makes you wonder what the heck
happened.
He also received a death sentence
following murders in nineteen sixty six.
The victims were a 17 year old Robert
Brand, 16 year old Edna Sullivan
and 16 year old Marcus Dunham.
But in nineteen seventy two, the US
Supreme Court ruled the death penalty
unconstitutional.
McDuff sentence was commuted to
life and he was paroled in 1990.
McDuff received his second death sentence
last year for committing a 1990
to murder while out on parole
on Tuesday. After less than an hour of
deliberations, an Austin jury sentenced
McDuff to die for the December nineteen
ninety one abduction, rape and murder
of twenty eight year old Colleen Reid.
But I also said to myself, yes,
after this, since this time they're given
an injection, then everybody can be
happy.
Now the brands wait for the day when
the man who has made others his victims
is ultimately stopped.
Barry Sims, Texas News 5.