Texas Executes 10th Inmate Of 2014
Texas death chamber execution gurney. (credit: AP)
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HUNTSVILLE (CBSDFW.COM) - Texas has executed its tenth inmate of 2014. Former gang member, Miguel Paredes was put to death for killing 3 rivals in San Antonio.
The court denied a stay for Miguel Paredes in a brief order released Tuesday. Paredes, 32, was convicted along with two other men in the September 2000 shooting deaths of three people with ties to the Mexican Mafia. The victims’ bodies were rolled up in a carpet, driven about 50 miles southwest, dumped and set on fire. A farmer investigating a grass fire found the remains.
Prosecutors alleged that Paredes, who turned 18 six weeks before the slayings, was the most aggressive shooter when the three victims showed up at a home to collect drug money.
The state uses the death penalty more than any other state.
One more execution is scheduled this year.
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