Friday, March 1, 2019

Texas set to execute man convicted of 1989 murder of three in-laws

By Alex Dobuzinskis (Reuters) - A man convicted of murdering his estranged wife's parents and brother in 1989 was due for execution in Texas on Thursday, hours after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition seeking a reprieve on grounds he received inadequate defence at his trial. The high court's action cleared the way for the Texas Criminal Justice Department to proceed in putting Billie Wayne Coble, 70, to death by lethal injection at 6 p.m

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