Texas carries out nation’s first execution since Tennessee’s botched attempt

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Texas’ execution chamber as seen from the witness viewing room at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville.

A Texas death row inmate convicted of a fatal 2000 robbery who was executed Wednesday night was the first person put to death in the country since a failed execution in Tennessee that has raised alarm over lethal injection.

Jamaal Howard was executed by lethal injection and pronounced deceased at 8:03 p.m., according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. In his final statement, Howard apologized to the family of the woman he was convicted of killing and thanked his family.

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