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Texas Executes Death Row Prisoner Lester Bower

HeadlineJun 04, 2015

Texas has executed a death row prisoner convicted of the 1983 killings of four men. Lester Bower is the oldest person executed in Texas in three decades, at 67 years old. Bower had always maintained his innocence. In March, the Supreme Court rejected a review of the case, but three justices said they favored throwing out his death sentence.

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