[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----TEXAS

[Rick Halperin]

January 18




TEXAS----execution

'Tourniquet Killer' executed in Texas


A man who became known as Houston's "Tourniquet Killer" because of his 
signature murder technique has become the nation's 1st prisoner executed in 
2018.

Anthony Allen Shore received lethal injection Thursday evening in Texas for the 
1992 strangling of a 21-year-old woman whose body was dumped in the drive-thru 
of a Houston Dairy Queen. Maria del Carmen Estrada was one of four females 
Shore confessed to killing.

The 55-year-old Shore's execution originally was set for last October but was 
delayed for an investigation after another condemned inmate concocted a scheme 
to have Shore take responsibility for the other inmate's murder case.

Shore confessed to 4 slayings after a tiny particle collected from under 
Estrada's fingernail was matched to his DNA. Estrada's murder had gone unsolved 
for more than a decade.

Shore becomes the 28th condemned inmate to be put to death since Greg Abbott 
became governor of Texas, and the 546th overall since the state resumed capital 
punishment on December 17, 1982.

Shore becomes the 1466th condemned inmate to be put to death in the USA since 
the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977.

(sources:  Associated Press & Rick Halperin)