Man Who Buried Woman Alive Is Executed in Texas
Associated Press
HUNTSVILLE, Tex. —
A condemned man went quietly to his death early Tuesday for trying to rape a woman and then burying her alive. Chester Lee Wicker, who would have turned 38 on Thursday, died by drug injection for the 1980 slaying of Suzanne C. Knuth, 22, of Beaumont.
Wicker, whose final-day appeals were rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court, was the third inmate to be executed by the state of Texas in a week.
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