'Texas 7' member Joseph Garcia pronounced dead for murdering police officer
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Texas on Tuesday executed a member of the "Texas 7," a group of inmates who killed a police officer at a sporting goods store on Christmas Eve in 2000 after they escaped a maximum security prison days earlier.
Joseph Garcia, 47, was pronounced dead at 6:43 p.m. local time. He was put to death by lethal injection in the state's death chamber in Huntsville, the state's department of criminal justice said.
(With inputs from agencies.)
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