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HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A man who killed his mother and buried her body in her backyard was executed Wednesday in Texas despite his lawyers’ appeals that he should not

A Texas inmate was executed on Wednesday for killing his mother and burying her body nearly 20 years ago.

A Texas inmate was executed on Wednesday for killing his mother and burying her body nearly 20 years ago.

A Texas inmate was executed on Wednesday for killing his mother and burying her body nearly 20 years ago.

A Texas inmate was executed on Wednesday for killing his mother and burying her body nearly 20 years ago.

A Texas inmate whose lawyers say has a history of mental illness faces execution on Wednesday for killing his mother and burying her body nearly 20 years ago.

The ruling by the US Supreme Court, allowing John Ramirez to have his spiritual adviser in the execution chamber to pray and “lay hands” on him, opens the way for the executions of other death row inmates who have made similar requests.

“He just fell asleep,” Pablo Castro Junior said about witnessing his father's murderer die by lethal injection. “I got no joy out of that. I watch people sleep all of the time.”

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas on Wednesday put to death a man who fatally stabbed a...

Ramiro Gonzales, 39, had been set to receive a lethal injection for fatally shooting Bridget Townsend but got a stay on Monday.