This undated file photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows death row inmate Thomas Whitaker. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018, unanimously recommended the death sentence of Whitaker be commuted to life. Whitaker is set for lethal injection Thursday, Feb. 22, for masterminding the fatal shootings of his mother and brother at their suburban Houston home in 2003. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP, File)

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas governor agrees with parole board, spares convicted killer from execution.

Texas prison officials describe condemned inmate Thomas “Bart” Whitaker as nearly stoic after his move from death row to a holding cell steps from the death chamber.

Whitaker faces lethal injection Thursday evening. He was taken at midday about 45 miles from the prison that houses the state’s male death row to the Huntsville Unit, where executions take place.

Asked if he planned to make a final statement if the execution is carried out, he told officials he would but had no plans to “do anything self-aggrandizing.”

Whitaker is scheduled to die for masterminding the fatal shootings of his mother and brother at their suburban Houston home in 2003 in a plot to collect inheritance.

He spent the morning meeting with relatives, including his father, who has pushed to have his son’s life spared even though he was wounded in the shootings.