Cedric Ricks, who was convicted of capital murder in 2014 for stabbing his common-law wife and her 8-year-old son to death in their North Texas apartment, was executed Wednesday evening.
Ricks was executed by lethal injection and pronounced dead at 6:55 p.m., according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. In his final statement, Ricks apologized repeatedly to the family of Roxann Sanchez and Marcus Figueroa, who survived the attack.
