TEXAS on Thursday executed a man who was convicted for shooting and killing his 29-year-old wife and his two daughters, as well as his father-in-law and sister-in-law shortly after smoking crack in 2002. Ochoa was the third inmate in the United States and the second in Texas to be executed in 2020. Texas, which executed nine people in 2019, has executed more prisoners than any other state since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. The United States is the only large Western democracy to retain capital punishment. On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request by Ochoa to stop the execution.

Source: New Strait Times February 07, 2020 01:30 UTC