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Texas Executes Man After Rare Six-Month Pause

Texas Executes Man After Rare Six-Month Pause

NEWS BRIEF The state of Texas executed Barney Fuller, Jr. on Wednesday night, breaking an unusual six-month streak without executions.The Lone Star State, by far the nation's most prolific wielder of the death penalty, had last performed an execution on March 6, when it killed Pablo Vasquez by lethal injection.Since Georgia's execution of John Connor on July 15, the United States as a whole went almost three months without an execution before Fuller's death.
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Texas Executes Man Convicted of Killing Neighbor Couple

Texas Executes Man Convicted of Killing Neighbor Couple

Barney Fuller Jr., 58, was executed Oct. 5, 2016, for the fatal shootings of a neighbor couple in Lovelady, Texas, north of Houston, in May 2003.An East Texas man who pleaded guilty to killing a neighbor couple during a shooting rampage 13 years ago and said he wanted to be put to death for the crime was executed Wednesday evening.Barney Fuller Jr., 58, has asked that all his appeals be dropped to expedite his death sentence.
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East Texas Man Executed For Killing Neighbors 13 Years Ago

East Texas Man Executed For Killing Neighbors 13 Years Ago

HUNTSVILLE, TX -- After six months since its last death penalty took place, Texas on Wednesday night executed an East Texas man charged with the killing of two neighbors 13 years ago.It took Barney Fuller, Jr. nearly 40 minutes to die after a lethal dose of pentobarbital was injected each arm, according to media reports.Still, as the drug was being injected into his system, he blurted out "Hey, you fixin' to put me to sleep," the Houston Chronicle reported.
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