Oldest Texas Death Row Inmate Executed but First Sparks Melee With Bizarre Last Words

Inmate Billie Coble. The 69-year-old prisoner was on Texas death row for almost three decades. Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP

A Texas death row inmate who murdered his estranged wife’s parents and brother was executed by lethal injection on Feb. 28.

Billie Wayne Coble, who prosecutors once described as having “a heart full of scorpions” was put to death in the state’s death chamber in Huntsville at 6.24 p.m. after an appeals court rejected a bid to delay the process.