Texas executes convicted murderer
WASHINGTON (AFP) — A 40-year-old convicted of orchestrating and participating in the fatal stabbing and beating of a man during a 1995 robbery was executed by lethal injection in the state of Texas, officials said.
Larry Davis was put to death at Huntsville Prison at 6:19 pm Thursday local time (2319 GMT), a representative of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice told AFP.
Davis was accused of entering the Amarillo, Texas home of Michael Barrow with several conspirators and killing Barrow, who was stabbed with a knife and an ice pick and beaten with a pipe.
Davis had proclaimed he was innocent of planning and carrying out the murder.
The execution is the third in July in the state of Texas, and the 16th in the United States since the Supreme Court in April ruled that lethal injections are constitutional. Executions across the country had been put on hold for months as the court deliberated.
According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 16 executions are expected between now and September, including 10 more in Texas, the state that has put a record 409 people to death in the past 30 years.
