Texas man scheduled to be executed for killing ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend
Charles Victor Thompson would be the first person executed in the US this year for the 1998 shooting deaths A Texas man who at one time escaped from custody and was on the run for three days after being sentenced to death for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend nearly 27 years...
<p>Charles Victor Thompson would be the first person executed in the US this year for the 1998 shooting deaths </p><p>A Texas man who at one time escaped from custody and was on the run for three days after being sentenced to death for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend nearly 27 years ago was scheduled on Wednesday to be the first person executed in the US this year.</p><p>Charles Victor Thompson was condemned for the April 1998 shooting deaths of his ex-girlfriend, Glenda Dennise Hayslip, 39; and her new boyfriend, Darren Keith Cain, 30, at her apartment in the Houston suburb of Tomball.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/28/texas-man-faces-execution">Continue reading...</a>
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