Texas man put to death for murder over $100 debt

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Texas man put to death for murder over $100 debt

By Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) - A Texas man who stabbed another man to death for failing to pay back a $100 debt to an exotic dancer was executed on Thursday by lethal injection, a state corrections official said. Arturo Diaz was pronounced dead at 6:30 p.m. CT (2330 GMT) in Huntsville, according to Jason Clark, spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. It was the 13th execution this year in Texas and the 27th in the United States. "Let's go warden. I'm ready," were his last words, Clark said. ...

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