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July 7, 2020 at 8:46 pm

Texas resumes executions after 5-month delay due to pandemic

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas inmate received lethal injection Wednesday evening for fatally shooting an 82-year-old man nearly three decades ago, ending a five-month...

February 5, 2020 at 10:11 pm

Texas executes man who killed 5, including wife, children

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Dallas man was executed Thursday evening for a shooting in which he killed his wife, two children and two other...

January 15, 2020 at 4:50 pm

Texas inmate executed for killing wife in 2005

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas inmate with a history of violence against women was executed Wednesday evening for fatally shooting his wife, who had...

January 14, 2020 at 9:50 pm

Texas inmate faces execution for killing wife in 2005

HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas inmate with a history of violence against women is set to be executed Wednesday evening for fatally shooting his wife,...

December 10, 2019 at 9:03 pm

Texas inmate executed for killing prison supervisor in 2003

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas inmate was executed by lethal injection Wednesday evening for killing a supervisor at a state prison shoe factory in...

November 5, 2019 at 9:00 pm

Texas executes inmate for strangling El Paso woman in 2002

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas inmate who was a member of a white supremacist gang was executed Wednesday evening for strangling a woman nearly...

September 24, 2019 at 9:02 pm

Texas inmate executed for stabbing deaths of 2 stepsons

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas inmate who claimed he was intellectually disabled was executed Wednesday for fatally stabbing his two stepsons during a 2007...

September 9, 2019 at 9:02 pm

Texas executes man who killed woman during spate of crimes

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas death row inmate was executed Tuesday for fatally shooting a 61-year-old grandmother at her North Texas home nearly a...

August 20, 2019 at 10:11 pm

Texas executes man in 1998 slaying of college student

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas death row inmate who argued that his conviction was based on junk science was executed Wednesday for the abduction,...

Louvon Harris holds a photo of her brother, James Byrd Jr., who was murdered by white supremacists 20 years ago, at her home in Cypress, Texas, June 22, 2018. The state of Texas is set to execute John William King, who along with two other white men beat Byrd, chained him to a pickup truck and dragged him to his death. (William Widmer/The New York Times) XNYT23 XNYT23

April 23, 2019 at 9:24 pm

Texas executes avowed racist in black man’s dragging death VIEW

John William King, who was white, received a lethal injection for the slaying nearly 21 years ago of James Byrd Jr., who was chained to...