{"id":122410,"date":"2026-01-14T05:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T05:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/122410\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T05:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T05:16:10","slug":"execution-date-set-for-2014-tarrant-county-murder-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/122410\/","title":{"rendered":"Execution date set for 2014 Tarrant County murder case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/rickscedric.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">TARRANT COUNTY, Texas &#8211; A Tarrant County man who has been on death row since 2014 has had his execution date set.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">51-year-old Cedric Ricks will be executed on March 11 as decided by 371st District Judge Ryan Hill.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">He had been sentenced to death in 2014 after murdering his common-law wife and her son.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">In May 2013, Ricks got into an argument with Roxann Sanchez, his 30-year-old girlfriend.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">He then stabbed and killed her and Anthony Figueroa, her 8-year-old son, with a kitchen knife.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Ricks also stabbed her 12-year-old son more than two dozen times, but he survived.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">&#8220;Hill\u2019s decision came in October, during National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, which served as a stark reminder of why we continue to fight to end family violence,&#8221; the newsletter wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story came from a Tarrant County newsletter and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tarrant County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article TARRANT COUNTY, Texas &#8211; A Tarrant County man who has been on death row since 2014 has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,1046,223,122,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-122410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arlington","8":"tag-arlington","9":"tag-arlington-headlines","10":"tag-arlington-news","11":"tag-crime-publicsafety","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tarrant-county","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}