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Recent Texas Executions

9/25/2019	Robert Sparks	Age: 45	County: Dallas
Murder of his wife and her two sons and rape of her two daughters. Sparks told the girl he had killed her mother and brothers, showed her their bodies, and said it was her fault they were dead.
9/10/2019	Mark Soliz	Age: 37	County: Johnson
Robbery and murder of a woman in her home. When he showed her that he was stealing her jewelry box, she asked him not to take it because it had been a gift from her mother, who was now deceased. Soliz then told her to go be with her mother and shot her in the head.
9/4/2019	Billy Crutsinger	Age: 64	County: Tarrant
Murder and robbery of two women in their home. Detectives began tracking purchases made on the victim's credit card and located Crutsinger at a bar in Galveston, where he was arrested.
8/21/2019	Larry Swearingen	Age: 48	County: Montgomery
Abduction and murder of a 19-year-old woman "I did not put no pantyhose around her neck ... to take your hands and strangle somebody, that's not me."
4/24/2019	John King	Age: 44	County: Jasper
Kidnapping and murder of a hitchhiker. The murder stunned the nation and made the name Jasper synonymous with racist hate. Various state and federal "hate crime" laws were enacted around the country soon afterward.