(ANSA) - NEW YORK, DECEMBER 12 - The executioner returns to strike in Texas, where the execution of Travis Runnels, the 46-year-old accused of killing one of his prison guards in 2003 has been completed. Runnels was killed with a lethal injection after the Supreme Court rejected the appeal presented inextremis by its lawyers, according to which one of the witnesses in the 2005 trial declared the forgery. With Runnels, executions to death carried out in the United States since the beginning of the year rose to 22, of which nine in Texas.
Execution in Texas, is the 22 / a of 2019
2019-12-12T04:53:09.145Z
The executioner returns to strike in Texas, where the execution of Travis Runnels, the 46-year-old accused of killing one of his prison guards in 2003 was completed. (ANSA)
