A man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend by dousing her with gasoline and setting her on fire was executed in Texas on Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court refused his final appeal.
A family spokesman said Friday that former U.S. President George H.W. Bush, who has been hospitalized for more than a month, “continues to improve” but remained in intensive care at a Texas hospital.
Convicted killer Bobby Lee Hines was executed Wednesday for strangling and repeatedly stabbing a suburban Dallas woman at her apartment 21 years ago.
A Texas man convicted of carjacking and fatally shooting a stockbroker was put to death Wednesday, becoming the first prisoner in America’s most active capital punishment state to be executed under a procedure using one lethal drug instead of three.
