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Jan. 28 (UPI) --Texas on Wednesday evening conducted the United States' first execution of the year, putting a 55-year-old man to death for the 1998 double murder of his ex-girlfriend and her new ...

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HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas man who once escaped custody and spent three days on the run after being sentenced to death for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend was put to death ...

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