First execution of inmate since failed lethal injection of Christa Pike

Jamaal Howard was executed in Texas a week after the botched injection of Christa Pike (Picture: Texas Department of Criminal Justice)A death row inmate has been executed in the US just days after Christa Pike’s botched lethal injection.
Jamaal Howard, 46, was put to death in a Texas prison on Wednesday, a week after Pike, 50, was injected in Tennessee with two doses of pentobarbital but survived.
Howard had been sentenced to death over shooting and killing store clerk Vickie Swartout dur