Texas inmate seeks last-minute halt to execution

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court was considering last-minute appeals from a Texas death row inmate scheduled for execution Wednesday, more than two decades after he was convicted in the slayings of his former common-law wife and her brother.

Willie Trottie, who turned 45 on Monday, has acknowledged shooting Barbara Canada, 24, who had a protective order against him, and her brother, Titus Canada, 28, at their parents’ home in Houston in 1993. Trottie said the shootings were accidental and in self-defense, and not worthy of a death sentence.