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Texas set to execute man for fatally shooting convenience store clerk during 2000 robbery

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Texas plans to execute Jamaal Howard by lethal injection on Wednesday for fatally shooting convenience store clerk Vickie Swartout during a robbery in 2000. This would be the 30th execution in the United States this year and follows Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute Christa Pike last week.

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Jamaal Howard, a 46-year-old Texas inmate, was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday, October 7, 2026, becoming the 30th person executed in the U.S. that year and the first since Tennessee's failed attempt to execute Christa Pike last week. Howard was convicted of fatally shooting convenience store clerk Vickie Swartout, 42, during a robbery in Silsbee in 2000, taking only $11 and a carton of cigarettes. His lawyers had argued that he is intellectually disabled and sought to halt the execution due to safety concerns following Pike's failed lethal injection using pentobarbital. Despite these appeals, Howard was pronounced dead at 8:03 p.m. at the Huntsville Unit prison in Texas.

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Texas set to execute man for fatally shooting convenience store clerk during 2000 robbery By asserted

Texas → set → robbery

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. asserted

what → shoot → Wednesday

Jamaal Howard, 46, was found guilty of capital murder in the 2000 killing of Vickie Swartout, 42, who was shot once in the chest. asserted

who → find → chest

He is set to receive a lethal dose of pentobarbital in the first scheduled execution in the US since Tennessee’s failed attempt at putting Christa Pike to death last week. asserted

He → set → death

Texas set to execute man for fatally shooting convenience store clerk during 2000 robbery

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