Texas Set to Execute Man for Fatally Shooting a Convenience Store Clerk During Robbery in 2000
- Jamaal Howard is set to be executed on Wednesday in Texas by lethal injection for the 2000 fatal shooting of convenience store clerk Vickie Swartout, marking the nation's 30th execution this year.
- In the 2000 robbery, Howard fatally shot Swartout at a store in Silsbee, Texas; court records show the then-20-year-old Howard took $114 and a carton of cigarettes before fleeing.
- Surveillance video presented at trial captured Howard shooting Swartout, with the crime occurring in Silsbee, 161 kilometers northeast of Houston; Howard was convicted of capital murder.
- Howard's attorneys have filed an appeal to the Supreme Court, arguing he is intellectually disabled; the state maintains he has not presented sufficient evidence to meet disability requirements.
- Texas has executed six people this year with two more scheduled after Howard, while Florida has carried out 16 executions, the most of any state following Tennessee's failed execution attempt involving Christa Pike.
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If the execution of 46-year-old Jamaal Howard takes place as planned on Wednesday evening at Huntsville State Penitentiary (south), it will be the 30th since the beginning of the year in the United States, all carried out by lethal injection. He was sentenced to capital punishment for the murder in 2000 of 42-year-old Vickie Lee Swartout, employed by a supermarket. His final remedies being exhausted, his lawyers asked the governor, Greg Abbott, …
Texas set to execute man for fatally shooting a convenience store clerk during robbery in 2000 – WTOP News
DALLAS (AP) — A Texas man who fatally shot a convenience store clerk is set to die by lethal injection on Wednesday in what would be the nation’s 30th execution this year. Jamaal Howard, 46, was found guilty of capital murder in the 2000 killing of Vickie Swartout, 42, who was shot once in the chest. He is set to receive a lethal dose of pentobarbital in the first scheduled execution in the U.S. since Tennessee’s failed attempt at putting Christ…
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Texas set to execute man for fatally shooting a convenience store clerk during robbery in 2000
DALLAS (AP) — A Texas man who fatally shot a convenience store clerk is set to die by lethal injection on Wednesday in what would be the nation's 30th execution this year.
'I Guess if the Drugs Don’t Work, They’ll Just Shoot Me in the Head'
Jamaal Howard and I are close. Wednesday, Jamaal and I will be in the execution chamber together in Huntsville. More than likely, only I will walk out alive. Jamaal’s execution will likely be the first one in the United States since the botched execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee. As his spiritual advisor, I felt the need to tell him about the horror that transpired. Prison walls have a way of making silence feel solid. I have learned about d…
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