SEATTLE - Despite several appeals for a stay on his execution, Texas inmate Arthur Lee Burton died today, Aug. 7, at approximately 6:47 p.m. CT by lethal injection at a state prison in Huntsville, about 70 miles north of Houston. He was convicted in the July 29, 1997, rape and murder of Nancy Adleman, a 48-year-old Houston mother of three who had been out exercising.
Burton became the third inmate to be executed in Texas this year, with four other executions scheduled for 2024. In total, 11 inmates have been executed across the U.S. this year.
