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A Texas man is facing execution for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend
Thompson faces lethal injection for 1998 double murder; legal disputes over victim's cause of death and clemency denials persist, Texas leads U.S. executions historically.
- On Wednesday, Charles Victor Thompson was scheduled to receive a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the 1998 killings of Glenda Dennise Hayslip and Darren Keith Cain.
- Prosecutors say Thompson and Hayslip had been romantically involved for a year but split after Thompson became increasingly possessive, jealous and abusive, and court records show he argued with Cain around 3 a.m. before police told him to leave.
- Defense lawyers contend Hayslip died from medical care complications, but juries rejected malpractice claims in 2002 and again sentenced Thompson to death in the November 2005 punishment trial.
- The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles on Monday denied Thompson's request to commute his death sentence, while Thompson's attorneys asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay his execution and prosecutors noted the Hayslip and Cain families have waited over twenty-five years for justice.
- Shortly after being resentenced, Thompson escaped from Harris County Jail in Houston by walking out virtually unchallenged and was arrested Sunday in Shreveport, Louisiana, 200 miles away, while trying to wire money to Canada.
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A Texas man is facing execution for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend
A Texas man is facing execution for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend nearly 27 years ago in suburban Houston.
·United States
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Total News Sources25
Leaning Left14Leaning Right1Center8Last UpdatedBias Distribution61% Left
Bias Distribution
- 61% of the sources lean Left
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