Remembering Our Dead

Brandi Houston

Brandi was strangled by Richard Masterson who claimed that her death was an accident. Masterson was executed by lethal injection in 2016.

The media reported that Brandi was a drag queen or "female impersonator".

HUNTSVILLE - Richard Allen Masterson, a convicted killer who once encouraged jurors to sentence him to death, was executed Wednesday for the 2001 strangulation of a professional Houston female impersonator.

As the killer's family and friends watched from a barred witness room, Masterson raised his head and directed a kiss in their direction.

In his final remarks, he said that he was being sent to a "better place."

"I am all right with this," he said. "You have to live and die by the choices we make. I have made mine."

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https://www.newsweek.com/richard-masterson-texas-execution-murder-death-penalty-lethal-injection-417887

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http://www.texasobituaryproject.org/012701honeycutt.html

Report added: 22 Dec 2018. Last updated: 13 Jan 2021

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