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Texas ready to execute member of 'Texas 7' for policeman's murder
Source: Reuters
U.S. DECEMBER 4, 2018 / 7:07 AM / UPDATED 6 HOURS AGO
Texas ready to execute member of 'Texas 7' for policeman's murder
Brendan O'Brien
3 MIN READ
(Reuters) - Texas is scheduled on Tuesday to execute a member of the “Texas 7,” a group of inmates who killed a police officer at a sporting goods store on Christmas Eve in 2000 after they escaped a maximum security prison days earlier.
Joseph Garcia, 47, is scheduled to die by lethal injection in the state’s death chamber in Huntsville at 6 p.m.
Garcia was serving a 50-year sentence for murder when he and six other inmates broke out of maximum security prison in Kenedy, Texas, on Dec. 13, 2000, court documents showed.
Eleven days later, on Christmas Eve, Garcia and the other escapees robbed a sporting goods store in Irving. Police officer Aubrey Hawkins, 31, was shot and killed by the group as the men fled, according to court filings.
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Texas ready to execute member of 'Texas 7' for policeman's murder
Brendan O'Brien
3 MIN READ
(Reuters) - Texas is scheduled on Tuesday to execute a member of the “Texas 7,” a group of inmates who killed a police officer at a sporting goods store on Christmas Eve in 2000 after they escaped a maximum security prison days earlier.
Joseph Garcia, 47, is scheduled to die by lethal injection in the state’s death chamber in Huntsville at 6 p.m.
Garcia was serving a 50-year sentence for murder when he and six other inmates broke out of maximum security prison in Kenedy, Texas, on Dec. 13, 2000, court documents showed.
Eleven days later, on Christmas Eve, Garcia and the other escapees robbed a sporting goods store in Irving. Police officer Aubrey Hawkins, 31, was shot and killed by the group as the men fled, according to court filings.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-texas-execution/texas-ready-to-execute-member-of-texas-7-for-policemans-murder-idUSKBN1O31C3
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