Eugene Broxton

As of July 2021, Eugene Broxton remains on death row at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit, awaiting execution.

Over the following years, Broxton unsuccessfully tried to appeal his convictions to the Court of Criminal Appeals on several occasions, arguing under the double jeopardy clause that juries shouldn't have been notified of his other suspected murders by the prosecutors at the hearings for the Dockens killing. His requests were denied multiple times until 2000, when a Harris County federal judge ruled that race-based testimony should be considered inadmissable. As the attorney general presiding over his original 1992 trial, John Comyn, had allowed a psychologist who claimed that race should play a factor in sentencing testify, the Supreme Court of Texas ruled that Broxton, along with four other convicts, should be granted new hearings. In 2003, Broxton was brought before a new jury trial but was found guilty and resentenced to death a second time.

After his release, Broxton began using drugs, developing a heavy drug addiction that drove him to rob and sometimes kill his prospective victims. On April 6, 1991, he broke into the northeastern Houston apartment of 46-year-old Gary Wayne Stuckwisch, whom he stabbed to death. After stealing all of the man's valuables, Broxton stole his car but abandoned it the very next day. Thirteen days later, Broxton abducted 59-year-old TV guide salesman Gordon John Miller in an area between Federal Road and the I-10. In front of witnesses, Broxton stabbed Miller to death before fleeing in his truck. Five days later, he attempted to attack a man named Elbert Madden, who survived the assault.

With an extensive criminal record in both his native Louisiana and Texas, Broxton's first major crime occurred on June 3, 1986, when he fired two shots at Pasadena police officer Walt Hays while fleeing from a robbery. Hays survived and then arrested his assailant in an apartment complex shortly afterward. For this, Broxton was convicted on charges of aggravated robbery and attempted murder, for which he was given a 13-year sentence. He was paroled in 1990.

Eugene Alvin Broxton (born February 27, 1955) is an American murderer and suspected serial killer. Convicted and sentenced to death for the May 1991 murder of a woman in Channelview, Texas, Broxton is also the sole suspect in three other murders for which he has never been convicted but remains the sole suspect.