Texas executed death row inmate Arthur Lee Burton on Wednesday for the murder of a mother of three during an evening jog in Houston, making him the third man put to death in the state this year and the 11th in the nation.
Burton, 54, was executed by lethal injection in the Huntsville Unit north of Houston for the 1998 murder of 48-year-old Nancy Adleman, whose daughter described her as someone who "chose joy" every day of her life. Burton's time of death was 6:47 p.m., according to Amanda Hernandez...