LIVINGSTON - Every day, Norma LaHood and her husband pass the spot where 10 years ago their son was gunned down.

It's the driveway outside their San Antonio home.

"It was our choice," LaHood says of the couple's decision to continue living at their home following their 25-year-old son's death. "My husband said, 'They will not chase me out of my home. My son loved his home.' "

Mauriceo Brown, 31, condemned for the fatal 1996 shooting of Michael LaHood Jr., is scheduled to be executed today in Huntsville.

Brown acknowledges being present when LaHood, a law student, was killed in an apparent botched robbery. But he insisted he's set to die for a murder he confessed to but didn't commit.

"I didn't kill this person," Brown said this month from death row at the Polunsky Unit near Livingston.

Brown is one of two men sentenced to death for the slaying that capped a spree of robberies over a two-hour period. Kenneth Foster, a companion who was tried with Brown, does not yet have an execution date.

Brown's lawyers were in the courts hoping to get the lethal injection halted.

According to court records, Foster was driving Brown and two others around San Antonio hunting for people to rob. Four people were held up. Then they spotted a pair of vehicles and began following them, ultimately winding up at LaHood's driveway about 2 a.m.

LaHood, shot through the eye, died instantly.

Mike Ramos, who prosecuted Brown, called Brown's claims preposterous. "He has absolutely no credibility," Ramos said. "When you're sentenced to death and days from death, you'll say anything. And that's what he's doing."