Killer’s Execution Sets State Record
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A man convicted of murdering a couple along a lovers lane in a Dallas-Fort Worth suburb was executed by injection at the Huntsville State Prison. Earl Behringer, 33, was sentenced to die for the September 1986 murders of 22-year-old college student Daniel Meyer and his fiancee, Janet Hancock, 21, who were shot at point-blank range in a remote Mansfield, Texas, neighborhood. Behringer was the 21st person put to death in Texas this year, surpassing the state’s annual record set in 1935.
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