Cop Killer Apologizes Before Execution

This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows death row inmate Johnathan Moore who is scheduled for execution at the Texas prison in Huntsville, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2007. Moore was sentenced to death for the January 1995, killing a 29-year-old San Antonio police officer who had interrupted a burglary. (AP Photo/Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice) (AP)

HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- A self-described fascist who adopted a dark punk and goth lifestyle was executed Wednesday for the slaying of a San Antonio police officer 12 years ago.

Johnathan Moore, 32, repeatedly apologized to the officer's widow.

"It was done out of fear, stupidity and immaturity. It wasn't until I got locked up and saw the newspaper; I saw his face and smile and I realized I had killed a good man," Moore told Jennifer Morgan, who stood next to the death chamber window surrounded by comforting friends.

He wished her happiness. He then counseled a friend who was a witness to quit using heroin and methadone. He told his father that he loved him.

He was pronounced dead at 6:21 p.m., eight minutes after the lethal dose of drugs began.

Moore was the second condemned Texas prisoner executed this year. Three more are scheduled to die this month in the nation's busiest capital punishment state.

Moore was convicted of gunning down Fabian Dominguez, 29, who interrupted Moore and two accomplices during the burglary of a house in the officer's neighborhood in January 1995.

On an Internet site, Moore said he "hung out with the Industrial, Punk and Goth scene" and described himself as "a full-blown fascist."

But he added: "I have disappointed and let down everybody that has ever loved me."

Outside the Huntsville Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, about two dozen San Antonio police officers held blue glow sticks to honor their fallen colleague.

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Associated Press writer Monica Rhor contributed to this report.