Richard Hinojosa was executed yesterday in Texas for abducting, raping and fatally stabbing Terry Wright in 1994, he was pronounced dead at 6:19p.m. CDT. According to the AP story, Hinojosa spent 2½ years in prison for fatally shooting a man in 1986.

Samuel Flippen who was convicted of first-degree murder for beating his 2-year-old stepdaughter to death over a decade ago, was executed this morning in North Carolina. He was pronounced dead at 2:11a.m. EDT. The AP story is here.