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North Texas man executed for 2004 killing of TCU professor

www.cbsnews.com·The Associated Press·18 days ago
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Updated on: May 14, 2026 / 9:52 PM EDT / CBS/AP Add CBS News on Google A North Texas man whom experts for both prosecutors and defense attorneys had said was intellectually disabled became the 600th person executed in Texas since 1982, put to death Thursday evening for the killing of a retired 77-year-old college professor. Edward Busby, Jr.   TDCJ Edward Busby, Jr. was pronounced dead at 8:11 p.m. local time following a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, hours after a divided Supreme Court lifted a stay over his disability claims. The execution followed a series of last-minute legal efforts by Busby's attorneys in a bid to spare his life after the nation's high court lifted a stay hours earlier.…

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