Texas carries out first US execution of 2017

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Texas carries out first US execution of 2017
Updated 7:07 pm, Wednesday, January 11, 2017


HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The Latest on the Texas execution (all times local):

6:30 p.m.

Texas has executed death row inmate Christopher Wilkins, who was convicted of killing two men after one of them mocked him for falling for a phony drug deal.

The lethal injection of the 48-year-old Wilkins Wednesday is the nation's first execution this year. Twenty were carried out in the U.S. last year, the lowest number since the 1980s.

Wilkins was declared dead at 6:29 p.m. local time.




Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/The-Latest-Supreme-Court-declines-to-block-Texas-10851235.php

[HassleCat]

1. We need to execute more people

To demonstrate our respect for human life.

[olddad56]

2. can't believe they waited this long, the year is already 11 days old.

it is Texas, I would have thought they would have started executing people on New Years Day.