First execution in US since Pike’s failed lethal injection

Huntsville: A Texas man who fatally shot a convenience store clerk was put to death Wednesday evening, October 7, becoming the 30th person executed in the US this year and the first since Tennessee’s failed attempt to administer a lethal injection to Christa Pike. Jamaal Howard, 46, was pronounced dead at 8:03 pm Wednesday after receiving a fatal dose of pentobarbital at the state prison in Huntsville. He was convicted of killing Vickie Swartout, 42, in a 2000 store robbery caught on surve