Ice Pick Murderer Executed:  A Texas habitual criminal convicted of murdering a young mother in 1979 was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday.  Kristine Phillips of the Washington Post wrote that Danny Bible, who was "accused in a series of murders and rapes," died without incident fifteen minutes after receiving a lethal injection.  Actually, Bible was found guilty by a jury of raping 20-year-old Inez Deaton, stabbing her 11 times with an ice pick, then dragging her body into a bayou.  In 1998, while in custody for a rape in Louisiana, Bible admitted to murdering Deaton.  Over the two decades it took for detectives to solve the murder, Bible killed his sister-in-law her baby and a roommate, and raped his five nieces.  Prior to his execution, Bible's attorneys petitioned for a stay arguing that his age (66) and health problems made the lethal injection process "cruel and unusual" and that the execution should be delayed until he could be put to death by firing squad or nitrogen gas.  The federal district judge, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and SCOTUS rejected that claim.