Texas Man Executed for Slayings of 2, Including Cousin

Texas Man Executed for Slayings of 2, Including Cousin
Ivan Cantu. Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas—A Texas man was executed Wednesday for fatally shooting two people, including his cousin.

Ivan Cantu received a lethal injection and was pronounced dead at 6:47 p.m. at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the November 2000 fatal shooting of his cousin, James Mosqueda, 27, and his cousin’s girlfriend, Amy Kitchen, 22. In final words from the execution chamber, the 50-year-old inmate said several times that he was innocent.