Jamaal Howard’s lawyers urged halt, citing risk of another failed execution, but court denied request Texas on Wednesday is scheduled to carry out the first execution in the US after the the botched lethal injection of Christa Pike in Tennessee last week. Lawyers for Jamaal Howard, a Texas man o...
Source: [Guardian World](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/07/texas-execution-jamaal-howard)