Despite condemn’s clams of innocence, Texas carries out its first execution of 2024

As reported here by CNN, “state of Texas has executed Ivan Cantu, who was convicted and sentenced to death for murdering his cousin and his cousin’s fiancée, though he insisted he was innocent.” Here is a bit more:

Cantu, 50, was put to death Wednesday by lethal injection, with the time of death recorded as 6:47 p.m., the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said in a news release.  He was executed more than 20 years after his conviction….

For weeks, Cantu and his advocates — among them three jurors in the case — have called for his execution to be halted so he could argue he was deprived of a fair trial and framed by those who, in his telling, are truly responsible for the 2000 killings of his cousin James Mosqueda and his cousin’s fiancée, Amy Kitchen, a nursing student.