In 2008 he called then-state Sen. John Whitmire multiple times, prompting a massive prison lockdown and search for contraband ...

A Florida man convicted of killing a husband and wife at a remote farm in an attack witnessed by the couple's toddler was put to death Thursday in the state's first execution of the year.

Texas has executed a man convicted of killing two men as part of a 2004 dispute with his boss at a strip club.

The condemned had also confessed to the murders of two teenage girls who worked at the club, Tiffany Dotson, 18, and Amanda Benefield, 16. He was indicted for both killings but never tried.