Texas executes man convicted of killing veteran police officer
Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas executed on Wednesday a 27-year-old man who was convicted of killing a veteran police officer in 2009 and had waived his rights to appeal his death sentence.
Daniel Lopez was pronounced dead at 6:31 p.m. after receiving a lethal injection at the state's death chamber in Huntsville, a prisons spokesman said. The execution was the 528th in Texas since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, the most of any state.
Lopez was convicted of lethally striking Corpus Christi Police Lieutenant Stuart Alexander, 47, at high speed with a sports utility vehicle as he was fleeing from police. Alexander, on the force for 20 years, was laying spikes on the road to flatten tires when he was sent flying about 175 feet (53 meters) in the air, according to court documents.
Lopez, who police said rammed patrol cars and tried to run over other officers in a pursuit that started after he fled a traffic stop, was shot twice in the incident.
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