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       ~ Erick Davila, 25Apr18, (TX) ~
   DIR By: BuzzC
       Date: April 26, 2018, 5:20 am
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       Texas executes man convicted of killing two at birthday party--
       Wednesday, April 25, 2018
       AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas on Wednesday executed a man
       convicted of opening fire at a children's birthday party in
       2008, believing a rival gang member was present and fatally
       shooting a woman and her 5-year-old granddaughter in a spray of
       bullets.
       Erick Davila, 31, died by lethal injection at Texas' execution
       chamber in Huntsville, a prisons official said.
       It was the ninth execution this year in the United States, and
       the 550th in Texas since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the
       death penalty in 1976, the most of any state. Texas has put five
       inmates to death this year.
       "I might have lost the fight but I’m still a soldier. I still
       love you all. To my supporters and family, y’all hold it down,"
       Davila was quoted by prisons officials as saying in his last
       statement.
       Prosecutors said Davila was a member of the Bloods street gang
       and drove by the party in Fort Worth, believing that members of
       the rival Crips gang were there.
       Using a semiautomatic rifle with a laser scope, he fired
       numerous shots into the group while attendees were eating cake
       and ice cream at the "Hannah Montana"-themed party for a girl,
       killing Annette Stevenson, 48, and her granddaughter, Queshawn
       Stevenson, court documents showed.
       He also wounded three other children and one woman, according to
       the documents.
       It took jurors about four hours to convict Davila at his trial
       in 2009.
       Texas said he confessed to the killings and told investigators
       he intended to "have a shoot-'em-up" and kill the father of
       Queshawn Stevenson, a rival gang member who was not injured in
       the attack.
       Davila's lawyers had asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the
       execution, arguing in a last-minute appeal that prosecutors in
       his trial violated a court decision by hiding evidence favorable
       to the defense of Davila being high on drugs at the time of the
       shootings.
       They also said it was inappropriate for his former trial judge,
       now the prosecuting attorney, to seek his execution date.
       The court rejected the appeal without providing details, issuing
       its decision less than 15 minutes before the planned execution
       time.
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