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Texas 'tourniquet killer' becomes first U.S. inmate executed in 2018
Source: Reuters
#U.S. JANUARY 18, 2018 / 11:23 AM / UPDATED 11 HOURS AGO
Texas 'tourniquet killer' becomes first U.S. inmate executed in 2018
Jon Herskovitz
3 MIN READ
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - In the first U.S. execution of 2018, Texas on Thursday put to death a man convicted of raping and murdering five girls and young women, using a tourniquet to torture and strangle his victims.
Anthony Shore, 55, was executed by lethal injection in the state’s death chamber in Huntsville, dying at 6:28 p.m., Robert Hurst, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, said by telephone.
It was the 546th in the state since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, the most of any state.
Shore, whose murder spree dates back to the 1980s and 1990s, was dubbed the “tourniquet killer” for strangling his victims with handmade tourniquets, the Harris County District Attorney’s office said.
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Texas 'tourniquet killer' becomes first U.S. inmate executed in 2018
Jon Herskovitz
3 MIN READ
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - In the first U.S. execution of 2018, Texas on Thursday put to death a man convicted of raping and murdering five girls and young women, using a tourniquet to torture and strangle his victims.
Anthony Shore, 55, was executed by lethal injection in the state’s death chamber in Huntsville, dying at 6:28 p.m., Robert Hurst, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, said by telephone.
It was the 546th in the state since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, the most of any state.
Shore, whose murder spree dates back to the 1980s and 1990s, was dubbed the “tourniquet killer” for strangling his victims with handmade tourniquets, the Harris County District Attorney’s office said.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-texas-execution/texas-tourniquet-killer-becomes-first-u-s-inmate-executed-in-2018-idUSKBN1F72A8