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 Hasmukh “Hash” Patel stands inside his convenience store in 1988. He was murdered there in 2004. Hasmukh “Hash” Patel stands inside his convenience store in 1988. He was murdered there in 2004. Photo: Courtesy Photo Photo: Courtesy Photo Image 1 of / 25 Caption Close San Antonio man executed for murder, robbery 1 / 25 Back to Gallery 
  
 HUNTSVILLE — A San Antonio man convicted in the robbery and murder of a Southeast Side convenience store owner was executed Tuesday evening despite pleas from the victim’s son to save his life. 
  
 Christopher Anthony Young, 34, received the lethal injection after his lawyers tried to win a last-minute stay from Gov. Greg Abbott and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. 
  
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 Young's story has become well-known in recent weeks after his victim’s son, Mitesh Patel, made a public plea to have Young’s sentence reduced to life in prison without parole. Patel said he believed Young was a changed man who felt deep remorse for gunning down his father, Hasmukh “Hash” Patel, during a robbery at Patel’s convenience store in 2004. 
  
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 Patel, who previously said he planned to witness the execution, changed his mind Monday. Instead, he spent the evening with his family and newborn son. 
  
 For others, though, news of Young's execution was a relief 14 years after the crime. Just before the murder, Young pointed a gun at a woman and raped her at her home while her three children watched, court records state. When she didn't undress fast enough, he fired a warning shot into the floor of her sister's apartment. He forced her into her car, then stole it when she managed to escape. 
  
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 The woman, who is not being identified because she is a sexual-assault victim, said in an interview Saturday that she is furious about what Young did. “I can’t say I would spare his life,” she said. 
  
 Young, who was 21 at the time of the murder, never denied he killed Hash Patel. In a June interview with the San Antonio Express-News, though, Young said he was not guilty of the sexual assault, despite evidence to the contrary. 
  
 Young has said he was headed down a dangerous path when he was caught after the killing. 
  
 “Death row saved my life. I truly believe if I would not have come to death row when I did, I would be one of two places: in prison or murdered in the streets,” he said in an interview. “If I would have gone straight to prison with the attitude I had, my growth process would not have started, and my gang-banging ways would still be there. I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to look at myself and tell myself I was doing wrong. I wouldn’t have been able to help anybody.” 
  
 He said he wanted to be a positive influence for at-risk children, who, like him, grew up hardly knowing his father. Young was 8 when his father was murdered. Young has three teen daughters. 
  
 Earlier Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison denied a request from Young’s attorneys for a stay, based on claims that the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles used race as a basis for denying Young’s clemency plea, arguing a white Texas inmate received a rare commutation earlier this year. Young is black. 
  
 Emilie Eaton is a San Antonio Express-News staff writer. Read more of her stories here. | eeaton@express-news.net | Twitter: @emilieeaton ||||| This June 13, 2018, photo shows death-row inmate Christopher Young outside death row during an interview at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit near Livingston, Texas. The Texas Court... (Associated Press) 
  
 This June 13, 2018, photo shows death-row inmate Christopher Young outside death row during an interview at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit near Livingston, Texas. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has refused to stop the scheduled execution of Young, who was convicted of fatally... (Associated Press) 
  
 HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas prisoner was executed Tuesday evening for the fatal shooting of a San Antonio convenience store owner after courts turned down appeals that the state parole board improperly rejected the inmate's clemency request because he's black. 
  
 Christopher Young, 34, never denied the slaying, which was recorded on a store surveillance camera, but insisted he was drunk and didn't intend to kill 53-year-old Hasmukh "Hash" Patel during an attempted robbery after drinking nearly two dozen beers and then doing cocaine that Sunday morning, Nov. 21, 2004. 
  
 Young and Patel knew each other, and Patel's family members had been vocal about not wanting Young put to death. 
  
 In his final statement from the death chamber, Young said he loved his victim's family "like they love me." 
  
 "Make sure the kids in the world know I'm being executed and those kids I've been mentoring keep this fight going," he said. 
  
 As the lethal dose of the sedative pentobarbital began taking effect, he cursed twice and said the drug burned his throat. 
  
 "I taste it in my throat," he said. 
  
 Then he slipped into unconsciousness, saying something incomprehensible. He started taking shallow breaths. Within about 30 seconds, he stopped moving and was pronounced dead at 6:38 p.m. CDT. 
  
 Twenty-five minutes had passed since he was first given the lethal dose. 
  
 Young became the eighth prisoner put to death this year in Texas, one more than all of 2017 in the nation's busiest capital punishment state. 
  
 His attorneys sued the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles after the panel last week rejected a clemency plea in which the lawyers argued Young was "no longer the young man he was when he arrived" on death row, that he was "truly remorseful" and that Patel's son was against the execution. 
  
 In their federal civil rights lawsuit, Young's lawyers argued that a white Texas inmate, Thomas Whitaker, received a rare commutation earlier this year as his execution was imminent for the slaying of his mother and brother. Young is black and race improperly "appears to be the driving force in this case," attorney David Dow said in the appeal that sought to delay the punishment. 
  
 A federal judge in Houston dismissed the suit and refused to stop the execution, then hours later Tuesday the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals turned down an appeal of that ruling. Young's attorneys did not take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. 
  
 Stephen Hoffman, an assistant Texas attorney general, said the lawsuit was a delay tactic, improper, speculative and "legally and factually deficient." 
  
 Young and his lawyers argued he no longer was a Bloods street gang member, had matured in prison and hoped to show others "look where you can end up." 
  
 "I didn't know about death row," Young told The Associated Press recently from prison. "It needs to be talked about. You've got a whole new generation. You've got to stop this, not just executions but the crimes. Nobody's talking to these kids. I can't bring Hash back but I can do something to make sure there's no more Hashes." 
  
 He said he excelled at chess and violin, cello and bass but "all that stopped" and he joined the Bloods when he was about 8 after his father was shot and killed in a robbery. 
  
 According to court documents, Young sexually assaulted a woman in her apartment with her three young children present, then forced her to drive off with him in her car. She managed to escape, and records show he drove one block to the Mini Food Mart where owner Patel was shot. Young was arrested 90 minutes later after picking up a prostitute and driving to a crack house where the stolen car was parked outside and spotted by San Antonio police. 
  
 Young told the AP the shooting stemmed from a dispute he believed involved the mother of one of his three children and the store owner. He said the woman, however, lied to him. 
  
 "He was not a bad dude at all," Young said of Patel. "I was drunk. We knew the victim. The whole confrontation went wrong. I thought he was reaching for a gun and I shot." 
  
 Patel's family members declined to witness the execution of Young. In a statement, they said Young forever changed their lives but that when they reflect on "what Hasmukh stood for, and the values that he instilled in his family, we can look for the good in people, including looking at the good in Christopher Young." 
  
 They added that their pleas for clemency for Young "sadly" were denied. 
  
 At least seven other Texas inmates have execution dates in the coming months. |||||
Student:
The children of San Antonio convenience store owner Hasmukh "Hash" Patel did not want Christopher Young to be executed for the murder of their father—but Texas executed him Tuesday night anyway. Young, 34, received a lethal injection after lawyers failed to win a last-minute reprieve from Gov. Greg Abbott, the San Antonio Express-News reports. He shot the 53-year-old Patel during an attempted robbery in Nov. 2004. In his final statement, he addressed Patel's two children, Mitesh Patel and Rinal Doshi. "I want to make sure the Patel family knows I love them like they love me," Young said. “Make sure the kids in the world know I’m being executed and those kids I’ve been mentoring keep this fight going." Patel and Doshi had sought to have the sentence commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The man executed was not the same person who killed their father, they said in a statement. "Christopher was a father to his daughters, and a man who desired to break the chain of gang violence through mentorship," they said. Young recently told the AP that he joined the Bloods street gang after his father was shot and killed in a robbery when he was 8, and he hoped to prevent others going down the same road. Before the 2004 robbery, Young raped a woman in front of her three children. She said Saturday that she did not support calls for clemency. "I can’t say I would spare his life," she told the Houston Chronicle.