Inmate who spent decades on death row first to be executed in U.S. this year

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Texas inmate Charles Victor Thompson, convicted of a 1998 double murder, was put to death Wednesday, becoming the first person executed in the U.S. this year, the Associated Press ...

Texas man convicted of 2 fatal shootings becomes the first person executed in the U.S. this year

Charles Victor Thompson was condemned for the April 1998 shooting deaths of his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend at her apartment in the Houston suburb of Tomball.