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| Texas Executes Man Who Killed Two Girls in 1992 |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 10/03/2002 |
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A man was executed by injection at the TDCJ last week for fatally stabbing two Houston-area girls in 1992 after they refused to turn down some loud music. Rex Mays, 42, was convicted of killing Kynara Carreiro, 7, and her 10-year-old friend, Kristin Wiley, at the Wiley home next door to his house. Mays confessed to the crime, saying he used knife skills he learned as a Marine. Kynara was stabbed and slashed 23 times and Kristin at least 18. Mays, who occasionally earned money performing as Uh-Oh the Clown and dressed as Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, killed the girls the same day he was fired from a low-level warehouse job. Mays told police he stopped outside the Wiley home, then followed the blaring music to a bedroom. Kristin refused his request to turn down the volume. He went to the kitchen, the girls behind him telling him to leave. Mays is the 800th prisoner executed since the U.S. Supreme Court in 1976 allowed capital punishment to resume. He is the 283rd overall in Texas, which leads the nation by far in executions. |
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