Texas Executes Inmate Who Strangled Woman
The state on Monday carried out its third execution of the year, putting to death a delivery truck driver who raped and killed a 19-year-old waitress nearly two decades ago.
Caruthers Alexander, 39, died of a lethal injection, becoming the 242nd person put to death in Texas since the state resumed capital punishment in 1982.
He requested no final meal and made no last statement before he was executed in the death chamber at the state prison in Huntsville, 75 miles north of Houston.
Alexander was condemned for the rape and strangulation of Lori Bruch, a married mother of a 2-year-old child who worked as a waitress at a San Antonio club.
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