Texas has executed a man convicted of the murder of a 19-year-old student, which he maintained he did not commit.
Larry Swearingen, 48, was executed by lethal injection for the 1998 murder of Melissa Trotter.
He said authorities ignored evidence that would have exonerated him. His last words were: “Lord forgive them. They don’t know what they are doing.”
Prosecutors have said they stand by the “mountain of evidence” used to convict him. Read more