A Texas man who once escaped custody and spent three days on the run after being sentenced to death for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend was put to death.
A Texas man who once escaped custody and spent three days on the run after being sentenced to death for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend was put to death Wednesday, becoming the first person executed in the US this year. Charles Victor Thompson, 55, was pronounced dead at 6:50pm CST after receiving an injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, the AP reports. He was condemned for the April 1998 shooting deaths of Glenda Dennise Hayslip, 39, and Darren Keith Cain, 30, at the woman’s suburban Houston apartment.
