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| Texas Executes Convicted Killer |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 06/17/2002 |
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A 27-year-old former construction worker was executed Thursday for killing a convenience store clerk during a robbery more than six years ago. Daniel Reneau gave no final statement before he was given the lethal injection. Prosecutors said Reneau entered the store in Kerrville, about 50 miles northwest of San Antonio, before dawn on Jan. 2, 1996, and shot the clerk in the face. He was then joined by a roommate who helped him robbed the store of more than $11,000 in cash and checks. Both were arrested within 24 hours. The victim, Kriss Keeran, 31, knew both men. Prosecutors said the pair had unsuccessfully tried recruiting Keeran to stage a phony robbery. The roommate, Jeffrey Wood, was also sentenced to death. He does not yet have an execution date. Reneau was the 16th Texas inmate put to death this year, one short of the total number of executions in the state for all of last year. With three more lethal injections set for later this month, Texas is on a pace to rival the record 40 executions carried out in 2000. |
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