Texas man faces execution for killing convenience store clerk in 2000
Jamaal Howard is scheduled for execution in Texas for the 2000 murder of a convenience store clerk. His legal team is challenging the execution based on claims of intellectual disability, citing Supreme Court precedents.
Why it matters
The case brings renewed attention to the ongoing legal and ethical debates surrounding the death penalty and the criteria for intellectual disability exemptions in the U.S.
A Texas man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk in 2000 is set to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday. If carried out, it would be the 30th execution in the US this year.Jamaal Howard, 46, was convicted of capital murder in the killing of Vickie Swartout, 42. She was shot once in the chest during a robbery at a store in Silsbee, a small town about 161 km northeast of Houston.Howard was 20 when the killing took place. According to court records cited by news agency Associated Press, he took $114 and a carton of cigarettes from the store.
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