Texas on Wednesday executed a man sentenced to death for a particularly violent triple murder.
John Hummel, 45, was the first man to get respite from the Covid-19 pandemic.
The convict received a lethal injection at Huntsville Penitentiary (United States).
He was pronounced dead at 6:49 p.m. (local time).
In 2009, he stabbed his pregnant wife and stepfather before beating his 5-year-old daughter to death with a baseball bat.
He had finally set fire to the family home in Fort Worth.
Three executions in 2021 in the rest of the country
John Hummel should have been executed on March 17, 2020. An appeals court had postponed the deadline in extremis "in view of the health crisis" of the coronavirus.
The judges had pointed out that an execution required "enormous resources", namely dozens of prison guards, lawyers, witnesses, and so on.
likely to spread the virus.
In the process, all executions were suspended for months across the United States.
Texas resumed executions on May 19 with Quintin Jones, an African-American who killed his grandmother.
In 2021, with the exception of Texas, only the federal government carried out three executions, just before the departure of Donald Trump.
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