Talk:Robert Dale Rowell

Article issues including notability

The are notability issues with this subject. A career criminal that killed at least two people, with what appears to be a lost timeline, was executed. The article, that can not be cleared up by any of the non-cited sources, seems to omit how a person convicted in 1980 to 30 years + 30 years +30 years, concurrent for a robbery spree of two stores and a restaurant, + 8 years (voluntary manslaughter in jail)= 38 years, that did not escape nor apparently paroled, can commit murder in 1993.

There is controversy concerning the sites used that supposedly back up article content. prodeathpenalty.com gives this information:

• "Rowell started shooting with a 25 caliber pistol striking all three victims, killing Wright and Raymond David Mata.".
• "UPDATE: Tuesday night Robert Rowell, 50, was executed for fatally shooting three people at a Houston crack house. A third person was wounded and left paralyzed.".

texas attorneygeneral.gov states:

• "Mata died from a gunshot wound, but he had also been struck on the back of his head with a hammer-type instrument. Wright and Perez survived.".

clarkprosecutor.org has the exact same info as the Attorney general site and the statistics also are:

• 51st murderer executed in U.S. in 2005
• 995th murderer executed in U.S. since 1976
• 18th murderer executed in Texas in 2005
• 354th murderer executed in Texas since 1976

It is more-than-likely the Texas Attorney General site is the more reliable but the Plainview Daily Herald, published with the title Killer in crack house shooting executed, by Michael Graczyk: Published 2005-11-14, gives the following:

A 1980 robbery spree that included a shootout with a Houston police officer at a restaurant ended with his arrest while he hid under a car in a parking lot and got him a 30-year sentence. Two years later, prison records show he fatally stabbed a fellow inmate at the Ramsey I prison in Brazoria County, earning him a manslaughter conviction and another eight-year prison term. In June 1991, however, he was released under mandatory supervision only to be arrested two years later for the crack house shootings.

Rowell v. Dretke states:

• "Rowell was convicted and sentenced to death in April 1994 for the capital offense of murdering Raymond David Mata while in the course of committing or attempting to commit robbery.".

This gives some incite on the subject being released, and there is the trivia about the man that was paralyzed, but I can not find enough notability, other than the one thing, to warrant inclusion on Wikipedia. Otr500 (talk) 07:25, 10 May 2017 (UTC)