Texas Man Executed for Double Murder
Associated Press
HUNTSVILLE, Texas —
A man convicted of shooting his former mother-in-law and her mother to death was executed by injection Monday.
Wayne Mason, 48, was arrested the day after the Oct. 2, 1991, shootings of Marsha Brock, 55, and her 80-year-old mother, Sybil Dennis. Mason was the estranged husband of Brock’s daughter, Melinda Mason.
Two weeks before the shootings, Mason took Melinda Mason hostage and held her at gunpoint for 5 1/2 hours, according to trial testimony.
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