Darwin Demond Brown (1977 - January 22, 2009) was an American convicted murderer who received the death sentence in 1997 for murdering Richard Yost while robbing a Tulsa QuikTrip in 1995.
He was executed on January 22, 2009 by lethal injection. Brown's three accomplices Michael Wilson, Billy Alverson and Richard Harjo have also been sentenced to death. Brown had murdered Richard Yost by beating him with a metal baseball bat in the 1995 robbery. The state Pardon and Parole Board denied clemency for Brown on Jan. 7, and Brown's attorney, James Hankins, said his client had exhausted all of his appeals. Hankins had not denied that Brown participated in the killing, but appealed to the parole board to spare his client's life because he was just 18 years old when the killing happened and two of Brown's co-defendants were the "primary movers" behind the robbery. Brown's life of crime began at 15 years old when he was arrested in Tulsa with a loaded .25-caliber handgun. Brown's delinquency escalated over the next few years with assault and drug offenses, eventually culminating in an act that took the life of a convenience store clerk and eventually claimed his own.
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