Marcus Cotton

 

 

Age: 29

 

Summary: career criminal convicted in the 1996 shooting death of prosecutor Gil Epstein during a robbery in the parking lot of a Houston community center who initially didn't intend to kill his victim but decided to after he looked into his wallet and found a badge identifying him as an assistant district attorney.

 

 

Cause of Death: Executed by lethal injection

 

Born: September 28, 1974

 

Died: March 3, 2004

 

Location: Huntsville, Texas