USA TODAY - 23 Aug 2019 Larry Swearingen, 48, received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the December 1998 killing of 19-year-old Melissa Trotter. She was last seen leaving her community college in Conroe, and her body was found nearly a month later in a ...
Texas Public Radio - 23 Aug 2019
On Wednesday, August 21, the State of Texas prepared to execute Larry Swearingen. He was convicted of the abduction, rape and murder of Melissa Trotter, a.
Texas Standard - 22 Aug 2019
The Standard's news roundup gives you a quick hit of interesting, sometimes irreverent, and breaking news stories from all over the state. The State of Texas ...
Chron - 22 Aug 2019
HUNTSVILLE—For two decades, Larry Ray Swearingen told anyone who would listen that he did not kill Melissa Trotter. He knew her, he said — but wasn't the ...
The Daily Record (Rochester, N.Y.) - 22 Aug 2019
Larry Swearingen, who claimed to his dying breath that he did not commit the murder of 19-year-old Melissa Trotter in 1998, was executed by lethal injection ...
Texas Monthly - 09 Sep 2019
Governor Greg Abbott tweeted last week that “expedited executions” for mass shooters would make a “nice addition” to the package of policy proposals he was ...
World Socialist Web Site - 24 Aug 2019
Texas carried out the execution of Larry Swearingen Wednesday evening despite serious doubts surrounding virtually every piece of forensic evidence in his ...
Mineral Wells Index - 21 Aug 2019
A Willis man — who has maintained his innocence for over 20 years — was put to death by the state of Texas Wednesday at the Huntsville “Walls” Unit. Larry.
The Washington Post - 17 Aug 2019
Larry Swearingen has always said he didn't kill Melissa Trotter, and with no witnesses, prosecutors turned to scientific evidence to convict him. Now that science ...
sbDirtySouthSoccer - 25 Aug 2019
On Monday, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles denied Swearingen's request for clemency. He died at 6:47 p.m. He also claimed the state knew that a ...
Houston Chronicle - 19 Aug 2019
Montgomery County's only death row prisoner lost a long-shot bid for clemency Monday, just over 48 hours before he is scheduled for execution.
KPRC Click2Houston - 21 Aug 2019
After 19 years of appeals, stays of execution and claims of innocence, Larry Ray Swearingen was executed by the state of Texas for the 1998 murder of Melissa ...
Chron - 15 Mar 2019
For the sixth time, the state of Texas is set to execute convicted killer Larry Ray Swearingen, a Willis man convicted of slaughtering Montgomery County college ...
Democracy Now! - 22 Aug 2019
In Huntsville, Texas, prison officials injected 48-year-old death row prisoner Larry Swearingen with a lethal dose of the drug pentobarbital Wednesday evening, ...
Woodlands Online - 23 Aug 2019
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, TX -- On August 21, 2019 at 6:47 p.m, Larry Ray Swearingen was executed by lethal injection for the 1998 kidnapping and murder of ...
Texas Public Radio - 18 Aug 2019
Larry Swearingen is scheduled to be executed Wednesday by the State of Texas. It was 19 years ago that Swearingen was convicted of the abduction, rape and.
Chron - 05 Feb 2019
More than a year after prosecutors agreed to DNA testing on decades-old evidence in a Montgomery County death row case, the results are in - and they didn't ...
