Update/Sad news on Thursday evening: Robert Lee Thompson is dead. He was executed today. Perry rejects clemency in death penalty case Accomplice executed for 1996 convenience store slaying. By Mike Ward / Friday, November 20, 2009 “Rejecting a rare recommendation to commute a death sentence, Gov. Rick Perry refused Thursday to stop the execution of […]
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