AUSTIN—In the first U.S. execution of 2018, Texas on Thursday Jan. 19 put to death a man convicted of raping and murdering five girls and young women, using a tourniquet to torture and strangle his victims.
Anthony Shore, 55, was executed by lethal injection in the state’s death chamber in Huntsville, dying at 6:28 p.m., Robert Hurst, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, said by telephone.
