Louis Bernard Gaskin, 56, also known as the “ninja killer,” has finally been executed in Florida last Wednesday. He is known for killing a couple visiting from New Jersey.
There are currently 197 inmates on Texas’ Death Row, including Cameron County native Melissa Lucio, who would be the first Latina to be executed by the State of Texas and the sixth woman executed in the United States in the past decade.
57-year-old William Rousan took his last breath around midnight on Wednesday as the state of Missouri carried out his execution just miles away from the farm where prosecutors say he killed an elderly couple in 1993 in order to steal their cows.