The State of Texas carried out its fifth execution of the year on April 9, 2015. Kent Sprouse, 42, was put to death for the 2002 murders of a 28-year-old Texas cop and a 38-year-old gas station customer. Sprouse is one of only two executions from Ellis county. Read more about Sprouse from the Huffington Post.
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