Charles Thompson, who once briefly escaped custody after being sentenced to death, was executed Wednesday evening for the 1998 double murder of his former girlfriend and her friend.
Thompson had gotten into an altercation at his then-girlfriend Dennise Hayslip’s apartment in Houston with her and her friend, Darren Cain, before a police officer escorted Thompson off the property, according to court records. Early the next morning, Thompson returned to the apartment, killing Cain and shooting Hayslip in the mouth. Hayslip was life-flighted to a nearby hospital, where she died a week later. Thompson was charged with capital murder for killing the two and sentenced to death in 1999.
Thompson was executed by lethal injection and pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. Wednesday, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The 55-year-old apologized to Hayslip and Cain’s families in his final statement and encouraged them and his own family to “keep Jesus first.”
