{"id":294887,"date":"2026-05-15T18:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T18:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/294887\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T18:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T18:47:09","slug":"texas-executes-edward-busby-in-states-600th-execution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/294887\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas executes Edward Busby in state\u2019s 600th execution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Busby, who was convicted in 2005 in the deadly robbery and kidnapping of 78-year-old Laura Crane, was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville after the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a stay Thursday afternoon that cited a federal appeals court&#8217;s concerns about his eligibility for capital punishment due to intellectual disability. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Within his final statements, Busby apologized for Crane&#8217;s death and said, &#8220;he never meant anything bad to happen to her.&#8221; He described Crane as a &#8220;lovely woman,&#8221; and added that he&#8217;d &#8220;take the blame if it will help.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Busby was reportedly declared dead at 8:11 p.m. As Texas&#8217; use of capital punishment has declined in recent years, other trends continue, including more inmates from Bexar, Dallas, Harris, and Tarrant counties being subject to execution than in the state&#8217;s other counties.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Busby was convicted in Tarrant County, the county that is the third leading in Texas for executions, per the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2026\/05\/14\/texas-600-execution-edward-busby-death-penalty\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">\u00a0Texas Tribune<\/a>, and second in the number of inmates on death row.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There are reportedly 166 people currently on death row, with some who have convictions dating back to 1977, and most are in some phase of the appellate process.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The next executions are scheduled in mid-September for Ramey Ker&#8217;sean Olajuwa and LeJames Norman, who were sentenced to death for shooting three people in their own apartment during a robbery. Two other executions are set to take place later this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Busby, who was convicted in 2005 in the deadly robbery and kidnapping of 78-year-old Laura Crane, was executed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-294887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294887","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=294887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}