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Texas Executes Ex-Cop Who Hired Men to Kill His Wife
A former suburban Houston police officer was executed Tuesday for hiring two people to kill his estranged wife nearly 30 years ago amid a contentious divorce and custody battle.
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Texas Executes Man Convicted of Murdering McKinney Real Estate Agent
Texas on Wednesday put to death a man who fatally stabbed a Collin County real estate agent more than 16 years ago, the second execution this year in what has been the nation’s busiest death penalty state.
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Texas Inmate Executed for Killing 3 Family Members in Kennedale
A Texas inmate was executed Wednesday evening for an attack that killed his pregnant wife, 5-year-old daughter and father-in-law more than a decade ago.
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Texas Executes Inmate Who Killed His Great Aunt in 1999
A Texas man convicted of fatally beating his 83-year-old great aunt more than two decades ago was executed Wednesday evening, despite requests from some of the victim’s family to spare his life.
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Texas Resumes Executions After 5-Month Delay Due to Pandemic
A Texas inmate received lethal injection Wednesday evening for fatally shooting an 82-year-old man nearly three decades ago, ending a five-month delay of executions in the nation’s busiest death penalty state because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Chaos, Fighting Erupts During Texas Execution Thursday
Chaos erupts near Texas’ death chamber when son of condemned inmate pounds on chamber windows, shouts obscenities as father speaks last words; son, grandson arrested.
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Texas Inmate Executed for Houston Officer's Death
A 61-year-old Texas inmate was executed Wednesday evening for killing a Houston police officer more than three decades ago.
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Texas Man Executed in Double Slaying Over Fake Drug Deal
Texas on Wednesday put to death an inmate convicted of killing two men over a drug deal, the first U.S. execution of 2017.
