The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative
Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other
shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org.
June 4, 2015

Texas Executes Death Row Prisoner Lester Bower 
-----------------------------------------------


 
Texas has executed a death row prisoner convicted of the 1983 killings
of four men. Lester Bower is the oldest person executed in Texas in
three decades, at 67 years old. Bower had always maintained his
innocence. In March, the Supreme Court rejected a review of the case,
but three justices said they favored throwing out his death sentence.

 

.