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Posted: 6:34 PM Mar 15, 2006
Texas Carries Out Fifth Execution Of 2006
A Texas death row inmate convicted of killing two women in a robber outside a theater was executed just after 6 p.m. Wednesday.
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(March 15, 2006)—Texas carried out the fifth execution of the year Wednesday as a 31-year-old Dallas man was put to death for the 1997 murders of two women during a robbery outside of a theater.
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to block the execution of Tommie Hughes earlier Wednesday.
Prosecutors say Hughes was responsible for the 1997 deaths of Foluke Erinkitola and Roxanne
Mendoza.
The two women were robbed and shot to death as they left a movie.
Erinkitola was a University of Illinois student who was in the Dallas area for a summer internship with GTE.
Mendoza also worked for GTE.
Hughes was charged with both killings but only tried for Erinkitola's death.
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