The United States carries out its first execution since a botched lethal injection incident involving Christa Pike
Jamaal Howard was executed in Texas on Wednesday, marking the 30th execution in the United States in 2026.
- Jamaal Howard was the 30th person executed in the United States in 2026.
- Christa Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital on September 30 in Tennessee.
- Howard was convicted of killing Vickie Swartout in a 2000 store robbery.
- A Texas man was executed on Wednesday evening.
- Texas executed Jamaal Howard on Wednesday.
- Texas expects two more executions before the end of the year.
- Howard's defense argued he had an intellectual disability.
- Florida has carried out 16 executions so far this year.
- The Tennessee governor suspended executions for this year.
- Pike was sentenced for the 1995 beating and stabbing of Colleen Slemmer.
- The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals declined a request to halt Howard’s execution last week.
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