 David Harris, at age 43, was executed by lethal injection on 30 June  2004 in Huntsville, Texas for murdering a man, Mark Mays, during an  attempted kidnapping. That crime occurred on 1 September 1985, and  was unrelated to Harriss crime of killing the policeman in the  movie. The Mays case was mentioned in the film, it was the case  where Harris was wounded in the neck before the victim was killed.