# US carries out first execution since Christa Pike incident

https://mins.news/en/item/90742

- TASS, 2026-10-08 03:04 UTC
- Society
- Original: https://tass.com/world/2199047

> Texas carried out the first US execution since Christa Pike’s failed execution in Tennessee, the Associated Press reported. Jamaal Howard, 46, convicted of murdering a store employee in 2000, was given a lethal injection and pronounced dead. It was Texas’ sixth execution this year.

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