Texas carries out first execution since Christa Pike's botched lethal injection
- A death row inmate was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday evening in Texas, the first execution in the US since the failed attempt to put Christa Pike to death last week.
- Lawyers for 46-year-old Jamaal Howard had asked a judge to pause the execution in light of Pike's botched injections last week, according to the BBC's US partner, CBS News.
- But courts denied their requests, and he received a fatal dose of pentobarbital at the state prison in Huntsville.
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- A death row inmate was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday evening in Texas, the first execution in the US since the failed attempt to put Christa Pike to death last week.
- Lawyers for 46-year-old Jamaal Howard had asked a judge to pause the execution in light of Pike's botched injections last week, according to the BBC's US partner, CBS News.
- But courts denied their requests, and he received a fatal dose of pentobarbital at the state prison in Huntsville.
Sources: BBC News