Texas ‘Tourniquet Killer’ Becomes First U.S. Inmate Executed in 2018

File photo of Anthony Shore, 55, convicted of raping and murdering five children and young women, using a tourniquet to torture and strangle his victims, is seen in this undated Texas Department of Criminal Justice photo in Huntsville, Texas, U.S.. Texas Department of Criminal Justice/Handout via Reuters

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.