Chaos erupts, 2 arrested at Texas execution

By JUAN A. LOZANO and MICHAEL GRACZYK
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Chaos erupted outside Texas’ death chamber when the son of the condemned inmate pounded on the chamber windows, shouted obscenities and threw fists after his father spoke his final words.
Billie Wayne Coble, a Vietnam War veteran who killed his estranged wife’s parents and brother and threatened to do the same to her in 1989, told five witnesses that he selected to attend his Thursday night execution that he loved them.