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07/24/03 - Allen Janecka was convicted of the July, 1979 murder-for-hire killing of 14-month-old Kevin Wanstrath, in Houston. 07/23/03 - Cedric LamontRansom was convicted of the robbery and shooting death of 42-year-old Herbert P. Primm, Jr., of Arlington. 07/05/03 - Christopher Black, Sr. was convicted of fatally shooting his 36-year-old wife, his 5-month-old daughter, and his 17-month-old granddaughter. 07/02/03 - Hilton Crawford was convicted of the 1995 abduction and murder of 12-year-old McKay Everett, a family friend. 06/11/03 - Kia Levoy Johnson was convicted of the robbery and murder of 32-year-old Matthew Rains, night manager of a San Antonio convienience store. 05/15/03 - Bruce Charles Jacobs was convicted of the 1986 stabbing death of 16-year-old Conrad Harris, in Dallas. 05/06/03 - Roger Dale Vaughn was convicted of the strangulation death of 66-year-old Dora LeVeille Watkins, in Vernon. 04/22/2003 Juan Chavez was convicted of the 1995 robbery and murder of 40-year-old Jose Morales in Dallas. 03/26/2003 James Blake Colburn was convicted of the 1994 attempted rape and murder of 55-year-old Peggy Murphy. 03/20/2003 Keith Bernard Clay was convicted of the 1994 murder of a store clerk in a Houston convenience store. 03/11/2003 Bobby Cook was convicted of the 1993 robbery-murder of Edwin Earl Holder of Buffalo, who was on a camping-fishing trip on the Trinity River. 02/25/2003 Richard Head Williams was convicted of the 1997 contract killing of a 44-year-old woman in Houston. 02/06/2003 Henry Earl Dunn, Jr. was convicted of the 1993 abduction murder of 23-year-old Nicholus West, a medical records clerk. 02/04/2003 John William Elliott was convicted of the 1986 rape and murder of 19-year-old Joyce Munguia in East Austin. 01/30/2003 Granville Riddle was convicted of the 1988 murder of Ronnie Hood Bennett of Amarillo during a home burglary. 01/29/2003 Richard Dinkins was convicted of the 1990 murders of Katherine Thompson and Shelly Cutler after an argument about bad checks, in Beaumont. 01/28/2003 - Alva Curry was convicted in the 1991 robbery and murder of David Vela, 20, a convienience store clerk in Austin. 01/22/2003 - Robert Andrew Lookingbill was convicted of the 1989 beating death of his 70-year-old grandmother, Adeline Wuanita Dannenberg, in San Juan, TX. 01/15/2003 - John Baltazar was convicted of the shooting death of a 5-year-old girl in Corpus Christi. 01/14/2003 - Samuel Gallamore was convicted of the murders of Clayton Kenney, 83; his wife, Juliana Kenney, 74 and Mrs. Kenny's daughter, Adrienne Arnot, 44, in Kerrville. 12/11/2002 - James Paul Collier was convicted in 1he 1995 shooting deaths of Gwendolyn Joy Reed, 51 and Timmy Reed, 32, in Wichita Falls. 12/04/2002 - Leonard Uresti Rojas was convicted in the shooting deaths of his 34-year-old common law wife, JoAnn Reed and his 43-year-old brother, David Rojas, in Alvarado. 11/20/2002 - William Chappell was convicted of the retaliation killing of Martha Lindsey, 50, and her grandaughter, Alexandra Heath, in Forth Worth. 11/19/2002 - Craig Neil Ogan was convicted of the 1989 murder of Houston police officer James C. Boswell. 10/01/2002 - James Rexford Powell was convicted of the 1990 abduction and murder of 10-year-old Falyssa Van Winkle, near Beaumont. 09/25/2002 - Calvin Eugene King convicted of the 1994 stabbing death of Billy Wayne Ezell, in Beaumont. 09/24/2002 - Rex Warren Mays wqas convicted of the stabbing deaths of Kynara Lorin Carreiro (7) and Kristin Michelle WIley (10), in Houston. 09/18/2002 - Ron Shamburger was convicted of the shooting death of Lori Baker, 20, during a burglary in her home in COllege Station. 09/17/2002 - Jessie Patrick was convicted of the 1989 murder of 80-year-old Nina Rutherford Redd, in Dallas. 09/10/2002 - Tony Walker was convicted in the beating deaths of 82-year-old Willie Simmons and his wife, Virginia Simmons, 66, during a burglary. 08/28/2002 - Toronto Markkey Patterson was convicted of the shooting death of 3-year-old Ollie Brown, in Dallas. 08/20/2002 - Gary Wayne Etheridge was convicted in the murder of 15-year-old Christie Chauvierre, in Brazoria County. 08/14/2002 - Javier Suarez Medina Convicted in the December, 1988 robbery and murder of 43-year-old Lawrence Cadena, a Dallas narcotics officer. 08/08/2002 - T.J. Jones was convicted in the robbery and murder of 75-year-old Willard Lewis Davis of Longview. 08/07/2002 - Richard Kutzner was convicted in the January, 1996 robbery and murder of Houston businesswoman Rita Sheron Van Huss. 06/26/2002 - Jeffrey Williams was convicted of the rape and strangulation of Barbara Jackson Pullins, in Houston. 06/25/2002 - Robert Coulson was convicted in the murders of family members Robin and Robert Wentworth, for an inheritance. 06/13/2002 - Daniel Reneau was convicted of the January, 1996 robbery and murder of service station attendent Kris Lee Keeran in Kerville. 05/09/02 - Reginald Lenard Reeves was convicted of the rape and strangulation murder of 14-year-old Jenny Lynn Weeks, a runaway from a group home in Paris, TX. 05/14/02 - Henry Dunn was convicted of the 1993 abduction and murder of 23-year-old Nicholus West, a medical records clerk, in Tyler. 05/16/02 - Ronford Lee Styron, Jr. was convicted of the beating death of his 11-month-old son, Lee Hollace Styron, in Houston. 05/22/02 - Johnny Martinez was convicted of the robbery and murder of 20-year-old Clay Peterson, a convenience store clerk, in Corpus Christi. 05/28/02 - Napoleon Beazley was convicted of the car jacking murder of 63-year-old John E. Luttig of Tyler. Napolean Beazley was a juvenile offender (under 18 at the time of the crime) and was president of his senior class with no prior violent behavior. 05/30/02 - Stanley Allison Baker, Jr. was convicted of the robbery and murder of Wayne John Walters, 44, a clerk at an adult video store in College Station. 04/30/02 - - Rodolfo Hernandez - was convicted of the 1985 shooting death of 20-year-old Victor Cerran, in New Braunfels. 04/18/01 - Gerald Dewight Casey - was convicted of the 1989 murder of 29-year-old Sonya Lynn Howell in New Caney. 04/11/02 - William Kendrick Burns - was convicted for the 1981 murder of Johnny Lynn Hamlett, 18, in Texarkana. 04/11/02 - Jose Santellen, Sr. - was convicted for the 1993 murder of his girlfriend, Yolanda Garza, in the parking lot of a hospital in Fredericksburg. 03/07/02 - Gerald Tigner - was convicted in the 1993 shooting deaths of James Williams and Michael Watkins in Waco. 02/28/02 - Monty Delk - was convicted of the 1986 shooting death of Gene Olan Allen II of Grapeland. 01/31/02 - Randall Hafdahl - was convicted of the 1985 shooting death of 42-year-old James D. Mitchell, Jr., an off-duty Amarillo police officer. 01/16/02 - Jemarr Carlos Arnold - was convicted in the 1983 robbery murder of 21-year-old Christine Marie Sanchez of Corpus Christi. 01/30/02 - Windell Broussard - was convicted of the slaying of 28-year-old Dianna Faye Harris Broussard and her son, Corey Harris, 10, in Port Arthur. 12/12/01 - Vincent Cooks - was convicted of the 1988 shooting death of police office Gary D. McCarthy, who was working off-duty at a Dallas supermarket. 11/15/01 - Emerson Edward Rudd - was convcted of the shooting death of 23-year-old Steve Morgan during a robbery of a restaurant in Dallas. 11/14/01 - Jeffery Eugene Tucker - was convicted in the 1988 robbery murder of 65-year-old Wilton Humphreys of Granbury. 10/22/01 - Gerald Mitchell - was convicted for the 1985 robbery / slaying of 20-year-old Charles Marino, in Houston. Mitchell was a juvenile at the time of the offense. 09/18/01 - James Knox - was sentenced to death for the 1982 murder of Joseph Sanchez who was killed during a robbery of his drug store in Galveston, Texas. 08/08/01 - Mack Hill - was convicted of the 1987 murder of Donald Franklin Johnson, 43, during a robbery in Bowie, Texas. 08/16/01 - Jeffery Carlton Doughtie - was convicted in the murder of Corpus Christi antique store owners Jerry Lee Dean, 80 and his wife Sylvia, 79. 07/11/01 - James Wilkens Jr. - was convicted of the 1986 murders of 28-year-old Richard Allen Wood and 4-year-old Larry Wayne McMillan, Jr., in Tyler. 06/26/01 - Miguel Richardson - was convicted of the March, 1979 murder of John G. Ebbert, a motel security guard at a Holdiay Inn in San Antonio. 06/19/01 - Juan Raul Garza - was convicted convicted of drug smuggling and murder. (federal)
06/13/01 - John Wheat - was convicted of the 1995 murders of Lacey Anderson, 20 months, Ashley Ochoa, 6 and Eduardo Ochoa, 8, in Fort Worth. 06/11/01 - Timothy McVeigh - was convicted for the bombing murder of 168 people in the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. (federal) 04/25/01 - David Lee Goff was convicted in the murder of Michael N. McGuire, 34, in Fort Worth. 04/03/01 - Jason Massey, 27, was convicted of the murders of James Brian King, 14 and Christina Benjamin, 13, in Ellis County. 03/12/01 - Deryl Madison was convicted of the 1988 murder of Beulah Keary Jolivet, in Harris County. 03/07/01 - Dennis Thurl Dowthitt, 55, was convicted for the 1990 murders of sisters Grace Purnhagen, 16 and Tiffany Purnhagen, 9, in south Montgomery County. 02/08/01 - Adolph Gil Hernandez, 50, was convicted of the murder and robbery of Elizabeth Alvarado, 69, of Slayton. 01/29/01 - Carruthers Alexander, 52, for the rape and murder of 19-year-old waitress Lori Bruch, in San Antonio. 01/18/01 - Alvin Urial Goodwin, 37, was convicted of the 1986 abduction and shooting death of James Douglas Tillerson, 20, of Conroe. 01/09/01 - Jack Wade Clark, 37, was convicted of the 1989 rape and murder of 23-year-old Melisa Ann Garcia. 12/07/00 - Claude Jones, 60, was convicted of the murder of Allen Hilzendanger, 44, during a 1989 robbery of a liquor store in Point Blank, San Jacinto County. 12/05/00 - Garry Dean Miller, 33 was convicted of the 1988 rape and murder of 7-year-old April Marie Wilson of Merkel. 12/06/00 - Daniel Hittle, 50, was convicted of the murder of Garland police officer Gerald Walker in 1989. 11/15/00 - Tony Chambers, 33, was convicted in the 1990 abduction and murder of 11-year-old Carenthia Marie Bailey, in Tyler. 11/14/00 - Stacey Lawton , 31, was convicted for the murder of Dennis Price, 47, in Tyler during the course of a burglary. 11/09/00 - Miguel Angel Flores , 31, a Mexican national, was convicted of capital murder for the 1989 kidnap, sexual assault, and murder of 20 year old Angela Tyson, a college student working in a video store in Borger. 11/01/00 - Jeffrey Dillingham, 27, was convicted of attacking Jack and Caren Koslow as the Fort Worth couple slept in 1992, in a murder-for-hire scheme planned by Koslow's 17-year-old daughter. Jack Koslow survived. 9/27/00 - Ricky Nolen McGinn, 42, was convicted of the rape and murder of his 12-year-old stepdaughter, Stephanie Rae Flanary. 8/30/00 - Jeffery Henry Caldwell, 37, was convicted for stabbing and beating his parents, Henry and Gwendolyn Caldwell, and sister, Kimberly, in their Dallas home. 8/23/00 - David Earl Gibbs, 39, was convicted for the 1985 slayings of Marietta Bryant, 29, and was also suspected of killing her roommate, Carol Ackland, 46, in Conroe. Gibbs later pleaded guilty to killing black death-row inmate Calvin Williams, 30, whom Gibbs said he strangled in a recreation yard as an ``initiation hit'' into a racist prison gang. 8/22/00 - Richard Wayne Jones, 40, was convicted for the 1986 murder of Tammy Livingston, 27, of Hurst in Tarrant County. 8/16/00 - John Thomas Satterwhite, 53, a San Antonio-area mechanic, was convicted in the 1979 robbery-slaying of convenience store clerk Mary Francis Davis. 8/09/00 - Oliver David Cruz - 33, was convicted of the abduction, rape and murder of 24-year-old Kelly Elizabeth Donovan, a senior airman stationed at Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio. 8/09/00 - Brian Keith Roberson, 37, was convicted for the 1986, slayings of next-door neighbors James Louis Boots, 79, and wife, Lillian, during a burglary. 7/26/00 - Juan Soria - was convicted for killing Allen E. Bolden, 17, a lifeguard and instructor at a Fort Worth Boys and Girls Club. Bolden was a nationally ranked swimmer who had earned a scholarship to Texas Christian University and planned to be a sports doctor. 7/12/00 - Orien Joiner - was convicted for the murder of two of his Lubbock neighbors, Carol Lynette Huckabee, 26 and Eva Marie DeForest, 29. 6/14/00 - John Burks - was convicted for the 1989 armed robbery of Jesse's Tortilla Factory in Waco and the murder of Jesse Contreras. 6/15/00 - Paul Nuncio - was convicted for the strangulation death of 61-year-old Pauline Crownover Farris in Plainview 6/22/00 - Gary Graham - who now goes by the name Shaka Sankofawas, was convicted for the 1981 robbery murder of Bobby Grant Lambert, 53, in Houston. Graham was 17 at the time of the crime. 6/29/00 - Jessy Carlos San Miguel - was convicted of the 1991 robbery and murder of Michael John Phelan, 28, during the robbery of a Taco Bell in Irving. 6/12/00 - Thomas Wayne Mason - was convicted for the 1991 shotgun slayings of his estranged wife's mother, Marsha Yvonne Brock, 54, and grandmother, Sybil Mares Dennis, 80, in Whitehouse. 5/31/00 - Robert E. Carter - was convicted for the 1992 Somerville murder of Bobbie Davis, 45; Nichole Davis, 16; Lea'Erin Davis, 5; Brittany Davis, 6; his son, Jason Davis, 4; and Denitra Davis, 9. 5/26/00 - Richard Donald Foster - was convicted for the 1984 slaying of feed store owner Gary Michael Cox during the course of a robbery in rural north central Texas. 5/25/00 - James Clayton - was convicted for the 1987 abduction/murder of Lori Barrett, 27 in Abilene 5/23/00 - James D. Richardson - was convicted of the shooting death of Gerald Abay, 35, during the course of a liquor store robbery in Angus. 5/11/00 - Michael McBride - was convicted of the shooting deaths of Christian Fisher, 18 and James Alan Holzler, 18, in Lubbock. 5/9/00 - William Kitchens was convicted for the rape and murder of Patricia Leann Webb, then 25, in Abilene. 5/4/00 - Tommy Jackson - was convicted for the 1983 murder-kidnapping of Roaslind Robison, a 24-year-old student at the University of Texas. 3/15/00 - Timothy Gribble , 36, of Galveston County, was convicted for the September 9, 1987 rape and strangulation of Elizabeth "Libby" Jones, a former city councilwoman in Clear Lake Shores and a manager involved in the space shuttle program. 3/14/00 - Ponchai Wilkerson was sentenced to death for killing a Houston jewelry store clerk, Chung Myong Yi, in 1990. 3/1/00 - Odell Barnes, Jr. was convicted for the rape, robbery and murder of Helen Bass in Wichita Falls in 1989. 2/23/00 - Cornelius Goss - was executed for the May 1987 beating death of Carl Leevy in Dallas during the course of a burglary. 2/24/00 - Betty Lou Beets - was executed for the August 1983 shooting death of her fifth husband, Jimmie Don Beets, a firefighter, at the couple's home near Gun Barrel City in East Texas in what authorities said was a scheme to collect $100,000 in insurance benefits. 1/27/00 - James Moreland, 39, was executed for stabbing to death two men, 53-year-old Clinton Corbet and 41-year-old John Royce Cravey. 1/25/00 - Glen Charles McGinnis 26, was executed for the 1990 robbery and murder of Leta Ann Wilkerson, 30, a clerk at a dry cleaners in Conroe. 1/24/00 - Billy George Hughes was executed for the 1976 shooting death of State Trooper Mark Frederick, who had stopped his car outside of Sealy, Texas after responding to a dispatcher's report that a man driving a similar car was suspected of using a stolen credit card. 1/21/00 - Larry Keith Robison, 42, a paranoid schizophrenic, was executed for the Aug. 10, 1982, shooting death of his roommate, 33-year-old Bruce M. Gardner. He is also accused of killing neighbors Georgia Ann Reed, 34, her son, Scott Reed, 11, her mother Earline H. Barker, 55, and Rickey Lee Bryant, 31. 1/20/00 David Hicks 38, was executed for the rape and murder of his own grandmother, Ocolor Hegger, 87, in Teague, Texas. 1/18/00 - Spencer Corey Goodman - 31, was executed for the kidnapping-murder of 48-year-old Cecile Ham, the wife of Bill Ham, manager of the rock group ZZ Top, in Houston. 1/12/00 Earl Carl Heiselbetz, Jr. - was executed for the kidnapping and murders of his next door neighbor and her young daughter, Rena Rogers, 27, and her two-year-old daughter Jacy. He was the 200th person executed in Texas since capital punishment resumed here in 1982. 12/15/99 Sammie Felder - 54, was executed for the 1975 stabbing death of James Hanks, 42, a paraplegic who was living at an apartment complex designed for people with disabilities. Felder was working as an attendant at the apartments at the time of the murder. 12/14/99 Robert Ronald Atworth - 30, was executed for the shooting and stabbing death of Thomas Carlson, 56, a former insurance executive who was found shot to death between two trash bins behind a health club in Richardson, a Dallas suburb. 12/9/99 James Beathard - was executed for the 1984 slayings of Gene Hathorn Sr, 45; Linda Sue Hathorn, 35 and Marcus Hathorn, 14. Gene Hathorn Jr., who also received the death penalty for these murders, promised to pay Beathard $12,000 to help kill his family members so that Hathorn could inherit an estate valued at $150,000. 12/8/99: David Martin Long - was executed for the 1986 hatchet slaying of his three female roommates in Lancaster, a Dallas suburb. The victims were Donna Sue Jester, 38; her cousin Dalpha Lorene Jester, 64 and Laura Lee Owens, 20. 11/18/99 - Jose Gutierrez - 39, was executed for the murder of Dorothy McNew, a clerk at the Texas Coin Exchange in College Station, Texas. Jose and his brother stole approximately half a million dollars worth of gems and jewelry. Jessie Gutierrez was executed in 1994. 11/16/99 - Desmond Jennings - 28, was executed for the shooting deaths of 44-year-old Sylvester Walton and 27-year-old Wonda Matthews at a Fort Worth crack house. The Associated Press reported that Jennings' execution was noteworthy because authorities had to use force twice - first to pull him from his cell, then to take him from a death row cell and onto the gurney. It was the first time in 193 executions in the state since 1982 that a condemned inmate resisted during his trip to punishment. 11/17/99 - John Michael Lamb - 42, was executed for the 1982 robbery-slaying in Greenville of Jerry Harrison Chafin, 30, a Castlewood, Va., businessman. 10/28/99 - Domingo Cantu - 31, was executed for the murder of Suda Elder Jones, a 94-year-old woman who was beaten, raped and killed by being hit with a concrete block 11 years ago. 10/14/99 - Jerry Walter McFadden, 51, a thrice-convicted sex offender whose 1986 jail escape resulted in the state's largest manhunt, was executed for the rape and murder of Suzanne Denise Harrison, 18, a Hawkins High School cheerleader. 10/12/99 - Alvin Wayne Crane, 41, a former oilfield worker, was executed the shooting death of Melvin Drum, 57, Ochiltree County's chief deputy. Drum was responding to the call of a domestic dispute; it was at least the third time that day authorities were summoned to deal with Crane and his wife, Linda. 09/21/99 - Richard Smith, 43, was executed for the 1992 shooting death of Karen Birky, 38, a special education teacher at Lamar Elementary School in Houston who had a second job at a convenience store. While working the late shift she was robbed of $20 and shot in the parking lot. 09/14/99 - William Prince Davis was executed for the killing of Richard Walter Lang, a Houston ice cream company worker during a 1978 robbery at the Red Wing Ice Cream Co. 09/10/99 - Willis Barnes was convicted of sexually assaulting and murdering an 84-year-old Houston woman, Helen Greb, in the course of a burglary in 1988. Barnes was the the 100th person excuted in the 4 1/2 years of Governor Geoge Bush's administration. 09/01/99 - Raymond James Jones , 39, was executed for the 1988 murder of Su Van Dang, a Vietnamese immigrant, so he could steal the victim's portable stereo from his Port Arthur home. 08/18/1999 - Joe Mario Trevino, 37, was executed for raping and strangling 80-year-old grandmother Blanche Miller in Tarrant County in 1983 during a burglary of her home. 08/11/99 - James Otto Earhart, 56, was convicted for the fatal shooting of Kandy Janell Kirtland, a 9-year-old Bryan girl abducted from her home in 1987. 08/10/99 - Kenneth D. Dunn, 39, was convicted for the 1980 shooting death of Madeline Peters, 21, a teller at the Bank of Almeda in Houston. 08/04/99 - Ricky Blackman, 41, was convicted for the 1987 robbery-slaying of Carl J. Rinkle, 26, a Shelby County man who was stabbed and slashed with a home-made sword during the course of a robbery. 08/05/99 - Charles Boyd, 39, a former bank janitor, was convicted for strangling and drowning Mary Mulligan, 21, in her Dallas apartment in 1987. 07/21/99 - Reginald Lenard Reeves was convicted in the 1993 murder of Jenny Lynn Weeks, who was strangled during an aggravated sexual assault in Red River County. 07/07/99 - Tyrone Fuller was executed for the Paris, Texas robbery, rape and murder of Andrea Lea Duke. In January, 1988, 24-year-old Fuller and his accomplices stabbed Andrea to death during a burglary. 07/01/99 - Charles Tuttle was convicted for the 1995 bludgeoning murder of Catherine Harris, 43, in Tyler, Texas. Charles Daniel Tuttle, who turned 35 last Saturday, refused to allow his attorneys to file appeals on his behalf. 06/17/99 Stanley Faulder, 61, a Canadian citizen, despite a blitz of last-minute appeals including one to the U.S. Supreme Court, and pleading from Ottawa, Washington, the Vatican, and a stream of Canadian delegations to Texas, was executed by the State of Texas. Faulder, who has never claimed innocence of the killing, was tried twice and was twice sentenced to death for the July 9, 1975, murder of Inez Phillips, 75, of Gladewater during a robbery of her home. 06/01/99 - William Little, 38, a ninth-grade dropout who worked as a roofer, was executed for the rape, stabbing and strangling of 23-year-old Marilyn Peter in her Liberty County home in a rural area near Cleveland, about 30 miles northeast of Houston. 05/05/99 Clydell Coleman, 62, was convicted in Waco for the 1989 murder of 87-year-old Leetisha Joe after breaking into her home looking for valuables to support his cocaine habit. 05/04/99 Jose De La Cruz, 31, was convicted and sentenced in 1988 for killing 24-year-old Domingo Rosas on June 1, 1987. The body of Rosas, who was partially paralyzed, was found in his Corpus Christi apartment with multiple stab wounds and a broken neck. 04/28/99 Aaron Christopher Foust, 26, was convicted of the murder of David Ward, 43, a Fort Worth hospital administrator. 03/30/99 Robert Excell White , 61, was convicted of the murder of Roy Perryman, and of gas tation owner, 73-year-old Preston Broyles, and Gary Coker and Billy St. John, both eighteen, customers at the station. 3/25/99 Charles Rector was executed for the abduction, rape, shooting and drowning of Carolyn Kay Davis more than 17 years ago during an attempted burglary, kidnapping, and robbery. 2/24/99 Norman Evans Green - 38, was convicted 14 years ago for fatally shooting an electronics store clerk in a botched robbery. Nineteen-year-old UTSA engineering student Timothy Adams was shot four times at a Dyer Electronics store on Perrin-Beitel Road in San Antonio on February 13, 1985. Green's accomplice, Howard Bowens, testified against Green in exchange for a life sentence. 2/16/99 Andrew Cantu - 31, was convicted of capital murder eight years ago after prosecutors proved Gregory Lynn Summers hired him to kill Gene and Helen Summers, his parents, and Summers' mentally retarded brother, Billy Mack, in their Abilene home. 2/11/99 Danny Lee Barber - 43, was convicted of the beating death of 50-year-old Janie Ingram of Balch Springs during a burglary of her home more than 19 years ago. 2/10/99 George Cordova - 39, was convicted in 1979 of the murder and robbery of 19-year-old Joey Hernandez and the aggravated sexual assault of Cynthia West in Espada Park in San Antonio. 1/26/99 Martin Vega, 52, was convicted for the July 1985 death of James William Mims for a $30,000 portion of Mims' $150,000 life insurance policy. 1/13/99 Troy Farris, 36, was executed in Huntsville on Wednesday, January 13, for the 1983 shooting death of Tarrant County sheriff's deputy Clark Rosenbalm, Jr. 1/5/99 John Moody was executed by lethal injection. 12/15/98 James Ronald Meanes 42, was convicted for the 1981 slaying of Houston father of three Oliver Flores, 29, during the course of a $1.1 million armored car heist.
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