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A look at the execution scheduled in Texas

By Michael Graczyk
Published September 10, 2014 8:34am ET
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A look at the execution scheduled in Texas
In a July 30, 2014 photo, condemned inmate Willie Trottie is interviewed in a cell in the prison's visitation room outside death row at the Polunsky Unit, in Livingston, Texas. Trottie is scheduled to be executed Wednesday, Sept. 10 for killing his common-law wife Barbara Canada and her brother Titus Canada. (AP Photo/Mike Graczyk) | Mike Graczyk

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas planned to carry out its eighth execution this year with the scheduled lethal injection of Willie Trottie Wednesday in Huntsville.

Trottie, 45, of Houston, was condemned for the May 1993 shooting deaths of his estranged common-law wife, Barbara Canada, 24, and her brother, Titus, 28, at their home in Houston.

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