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| First Texas Inmate Put to Death |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 01/30/2006 |
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An Alabama man who was part of a ring that shuttled drugs from Texas to his home state was executed last week for the slayings of four people in Houston nearly 14 years ago. When asked by a warden if he had any final statement, Marion Dudley did not respond, kept his eyes closed and never turned his head toward witnesses in the chamber, which included one of his survivors and relatives of one of the people killed. Dudley, 33, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., had said he wasn't at the house the night of June 20, 1992, where six people were shot, four of them fatally, in what authorities said was a drug dealer rip-off. Dudley, who had record in his home state for burglary, assault, receiving stolen property and violating probation, was the first Texas inmate put to death this year. Nineteen convicted killers were executed in 2005 as Texas maintained its notoriety as the nation's most active capital punishment state. Another inmate is set for lethal injection next week and three more next month. They are among more than a dozen Texas prisoners with execution dates in the first five months of this year. |
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