# Texas carries out first US execution since Christa Pike’s failed lethal injection

https://mins.news/en/item/90619

- The Associated Press, 2026-10-08 01:22 UTC
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- Original: https://bit.ly/4ydImvZ

> A Texas man convicted of fatally shooting a convenience store clerk in 2000 was executed, one week after a lethal injection failed in Tennessee.

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