HUNTSVILLE, Texas — The Latest on the execution of Erick Davila in Texas (all times local):6:40 p.m.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. Annette Stevenson, a 48-year-old grandmother, and her granddaughter, Queshawn Stevenson, were killed in the April 2008 attack. 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 has refused to stop the scheduled execution of a Texas 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. Authorities said the 2008 attack was apparently retaliation for a previous run-in with one of the adults attending the party for a 9-year-old girl.

Source: National Post April 25, 2018 22:57 UTC