Murder/Rapist Executed:  A Texas criminal who murdered a man and raped his wife in 1993, was put to death Tuesday without incident.  Hanna Wiley of the Texas Tribune reports that Alvin Braziel has intended to rob newlyweds Lora and Douglas White while the young couple were taking an evening walk around their college campus, ten days after their marriage.  Instead he shot and killed Douglas, dragged his 23-year-old wife into some bushes and raped her.  Eight years later, Braziel was in prison for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl when detectives matched his DNA from a blood sample with a sample taken from Lora after her rape.  After 17 years of appeals and review on habeas corpus, where the defense never disputed Braziel's guilt, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied his last petition for a say 30 minutes before his execution.  Last Week WBIR in Tennessee reported on the execution of murderer David Miller via the electric chair.  Miller murdered 23-year-old Lee Standlerl, who was disabled, with a fireplace poker and a knife in 1981.  On December 4, habitual criminal Joseph Garcia was put to death without incident for the 2000 murderer of a 29-year-old Texas police officer.  CBS news reports that Garcia was serving a 50-year prison sentence for another murder when he and six other inmates escaped from prison and began a crime spree that ended with their arrests in Colorado.  The young officer had just finished Christmas dinner with his family when he responded to a robbery at a sporting goods store where he was ambushed and shot 11 times by Garcia and his fellow escapees.