Texas carries out nation's first execution since Christa Pike's failed lethal injection

A Texas man who fatally shot a convenience store clerk was put to death Wednesday evening, becoming the 30th person executed in the U.S. Texas has executed six people so far in 2026 and plans two more executions scheduled this year A Texas man who fatally shot a convenience store clerk in 2000 has been executed, a week after a failed lethal injection in Tennessee.