Michael Graczyk Associated Press
Posted: 09/10/2014 04:18:12 PM EDT
Updated: 09/10/2014 07:49:57 PM EDT
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - Texas has executed a man for killing his former common-law wife and her brother more than two decades ago in Houston.
Forty-five-year-old Willie Trottie's lethal injection was carried out about 90 minutes after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his last-day appeals. Trottie contended he had poor legal help at his trial and questioned the potency of the execution drug.
Trottie had acknowledged shooting 24-year-old Barbara Canada and her 28-year-old brother, Titus, at their parents' Houston home. But Trottie said the May 1993 shootings were accidental and in self-defense, and not worthy of a death sentence.
Prosecutors said he had threatened to kill Canada, who had a protective order against him, if she didn't return to him. They said he carried out that threat when barging into the house and opening fire.
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