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The state of Texas executed Iván Cantú, 50, convicted of murdering his cousin and his cousin’s fiancee.
His death by lethal injection came just hours after Idaho delayed the execution of serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech because a medical team reportedly could not find a vein into which they could insert the intravenous line carrying the lethal dose.
Cantú died more than 20 years after his conviction, while Creech, 73, is one of the country’s longest-serving death row inmates.
The state of Texas has executed Iván Cantú, 50, convicted of murdering his cousin and his cousin’s fiancee.
Thomas Eugene Creech, 73, had his execution delayed in Idaho on Wednesday after the medical team failed to find a vein eight times.
Cantú died by lethal injection Wednesday night; His time of death was recorded at 6:47 pm according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Up until the moment of his death, Cantú’s defenders were fighting to stop the execution so that the inmate could argue that he had been deprived of a fair trial.
In his account, he was framed by those who were actually responsible for the murder of his cousin James Mosqueda and Mosquenda’s fiancée, Amy Kitchen, in 2000.