Texas Executes Man for 2002 Murder

Reuters ^ | Thu Apr 26, 2012 | Jim Forsyth

[nickcarraway]

Texas executed a man on Thursday for killing a convenience store worker and wounding two female employees after a 2002 robbery, state officials said.

Beunka Adams was the fifth person executed in Texas this year and the 17th person put to death in the United States in 2012.

Prosecutors said the murder happened after Adams and another man robbed the store in the small east Texas town of Rusk in September 2002.

Adams herded two female employees, Candace Driver and Nikki Dement, along with Kenneth Vandever, who was described as having mental disabilities and who did odd jobs around the convenience store, into Driver's car, according to court documents.

[bikerman]

Thank you Texas.

[maddog55]

10 years isn’t exactly express but far better than other states.

[dearolddad]

But there should be some amount of time for appeals in a death penalty case, don’t you think?

How does one appeal with a ninety day time limit sound?

[bdfromlv]

In Obamies Kenya you get 7 days to appeal in a case of murder with a gun then dead.....