Texas executes man who killed Mexican, robbed him of $8
Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas on Tuesday executed a 35-year-old man convicted of fatally shooting a recently arrived Mexican immigrant in the head and robbing him of $8.
Juan Garcia was pronounced dead from a lethal injection at 6:26 p.m. at the state's execution chamber in Huntsville, a prisons official said.
The execution was the 529th in Texas since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976 - the most of any state.
Garcia, then 18, was found guilty of killing Hugo Solano, 32, in a 1998 robbery in Houston. Garcia and three accomplices had launched a violent crime spree in the Houston area, which included the robbery, the Texas Attorney General's Office said.
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