[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----TEXAS

[Rick Halperin]

April 25



TEXAS----execution

Texas executes man for killing 2 at party


Texas has executed a 31-year-old prisoner condemned for killing a 5-year-old 
girl and her grandmother in a gang-related shooting at a child’s birthday party 
in Fort Worth a decade ago.

Erick Davila received lethal injection Wednesday evening for using a 
semi-automatic rifle to spray bullets at about 20 people - more than a dozen of 
them children. Annette Stevenson, a 48-year-old grandmother, and her 
granddaughter, Queshawn Stevenson, were killed in the April 2008 attack. Four 
others were wounded, including the girl who was celebrating her 9th birthday.

Authorities said the gunfire was in apparent retaliation against the slain 
child’s father, who had a previous run-in with Davila.

The U.S. Supreme Court refused appeals to block the punishment.

Davila becomes the 5th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in Texas 
and the 550th overall since the state resumed capital punishment on December 7, 
1982.

Davila becomes the 9th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA 
and the 1474th overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977.

(sources: Associated Press & Rick Halperin)




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Executions under Greg Abbott, Jan. 21, 2015-present----31

Executions in Texas:  Dec. 7, 1982----present-----550

Abbott#--------scheduled execution date-----name------------Tx. #




33----------May 16-----------------Juan Castillo----------551

34---------June 21----------------Clifton Williams--------552

35---------June 27----------------Danny Bible-------------553

36---------July 17----------------Christopher Young-------554

37---------Sept. 12---------------Ruben Gutierrez---------555

(sources: TDCJ & Rick Halperin)