While the man who killed Doug Battle got a life sentence, one of his accomplices is about to be executed even though he wasn't in the building.

India, Jan. 29 -- A Texas man who had previously escaped custody after being sentenced to death was executed by lethal injection, becoming the first person put to death in the United States this year.

Jan. 28 (UPI) --Texas on Wednesday evening conducted the United States' first execution of the year, putting a 55-year-old man to death for the 1998 double murder of his ex-girlfriend and her new ...