Texas Executes Quadruple Murderer:  A 70-year-old man who in 1989 killed four people, including a police officer, was put to death in Texas Thursday.  Amy Lieu of Fox News reports that Billy Wayne Coble, AKA $5 Bill, died 11 minutes after receiving a lethal dose of pentobarbital.  Three witnesses to the execution, Coble's son, a male friend, and daughter-in-law began swearing, and attacking other witnesses as he died. In August of 1989 Coble, who was angry at his estranged wife, shot and killed her parents, their son and a police officer in a community outside of Waco.  He then kidnapped his wife and led police on a chase that ended with his arrest.     

Paroled Murderer Arrested For Robbery:  A recently paroled 1st degree murderer has been arrested for an armed robbery and shooting in Sacramento.  Katy Grimes of California Globe reports that 57-year-old Jonathan Franklin was recently released from state prison when he robbed a clerk at gunpoint at a crowded Denny's restaurant Wednesday.  When a customer intervened Franklin's gun fired, shooting another customer.  Franklin fled and carjacked another victim, crashing the stolen car during a police chase.  He is also implicated in an earlier robbery.  Franklin became eligible for release due to California's "alarming cocktail of criminal justice `reforms' that are likely to lead to a major crime wave," according to Grimes.  Sheriff's spokesman Shaun Hampton noted that "This guy spent his whole life in Los Angeles, but he was released on parole to his wife in Roseville.."