70-year old convicted of murdering parents of estranged wife back in 1989

A 70-year-old man convicted of murdering his estranged wife's parents and brother in 1989 was executed in Texas on Thursday, hours after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition seeking a reprieve on grounds he had received inadequate defence at his trial.

Billie Wayne Coble was pronounced dead at 6:24 p.m. CST (0024 GMT) from lethal injection at the state's death chamber in Huntsville, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said in a statement.