64-year-old John Gardner became the first person executed this year in Texas when he was put to death on Wednesday for the 2016 murder of his 5th wife.
Robert Mitchell Jennings became Texas' first execution of 2019 when he was put to death in Huntsville Wednesday night, 30 years after killing a vice cop.
Rosendo Rodriguez III, former Wichita Falls resident also known as the 'Suitcase Killer', was put to death by lethal injection tonight for two murders.
A divided Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has stopped this week's scheduled execution of 37-year-old Tilon Carter for the slaying of an 89-year-old man during a robbery at his Fort Worth home.