Deputies found a dozen packets of cocaine and a small scale in a false compartment in the console of the SUV.

"I've accepted my fate," he said. "I'm just ready to move on.".

When he was executed for striking and killing a police lieutenant with an SUV during a chase more than six years ago, Texas inmate Daniel Lee Lopez got his wish Wednesday.

Lopez, who also wrote letters to a federal judge and pleaded for his execution to move forward, said last week from death row that a Supreme Court reprieve would be "disappointing.".

Lopez's "obvious and severe mental illness" was responsible for him wanting to use the legal system for suicide, illustrating his "well-documented history of irrational behavior and suicidal tendencies," attorney David Dow, who represented Lopez, told the high court.

Testimony at his trial showed he had at least five children by three women, and a sixth was born while he was jailed for Alexander's death. Court records show Lopez had sex with girls as young as 14 and had a history of assaults and other trouble while in school, where he was a 10th-grade dropout.

Lopez was properly examined by a psychologist, testified at a federal court hearing about his desire to drop appeals and was found to have no mental defects, state attorneys said in opposing delays to the punishment.

Lopez, 27, was pronounced dead at 6:31 p.m. CDT. He became the 10th inmate put to death this year in Texas, which carries out capital punishment more than any other state. Nationally, he was the 19th prisoner to be executed.

Nueces County District Attorney Mark Skurka said Lopez showed "no regard for human life" when he fought with an officer during a traffic stop, then sped away, evading pursuing officers and striking Alexander, who had been on the police force for 20 years. Even when he finally was cornered by police cars, Lopez tried ramming his SUV to escape and didn't stop until he was shot.

It was always about Daniel Lopez, and it's still about Daniel Lopez," Skurka said Tuesday.

Because Lopez didn't intend to kill Corpus Christi Lt. Stuart Alexander, Dow also argued the March 2009 crime was not a capital murder.

"He had no moral scruples, no nothing. It was always about Daniel Lopez, and it's still about Daniel Lopez," Skurka said Tuesday. "He's a bad, bad guy.".

Lopez, 27, was pronounced dead at 6:31 p.m. CDT. He became the 10th inmate put to death this year in Texas, which carries out capital punishment more than any other state. Nationally, he was the 19th prisoner to be executed.

Records showed Lopez was on probation at the time after pleading guilty to indecency with a child in Galveston County and was a registered sex offender. He had other arrests for assault.

The lethal injection was carried out after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected appeals from his attorneys who disregarded both his desire to die and lower court rulings that Lopez was competent to make that decision.

Alexander, 47, was standing in a grassy area on the side of a highway where he had put spike strips when he was struck by the sport utility vehicle Lopez was fleeing in.