Texas killer asks victims' families for forgiveness before becoming first execution of 2026

A Texas antheral convicted of sidesplitting his ex-girlfriend and her caller fellow died by lethal injection Wednesday evening, marking the archetypal U.S. execution of the year.

Charles Victor Thompson, 55, was pronounced dormant astatine 6:50 p.m. section clip aft receiving the injection astatine the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s Huntsville Unit. He was recovered blameworthy successful the April 1998 shooting deaths of his ex-girlfriend, Glenda Dennise Hayslip, 39, and her caller boyfriend, Darren Keith Cain, 30, astatine the woman’s Houston-area apartment.

Before the lethal dose was administered, Thompson asked the families of his victims for forgiveness, adding that helium hoped "you tin statesman to heal and determination past this."

"There are nary winners successful this situation," helium said aft a spiritual advisor prayed implicit him, adding that his execution "creates much victims and traumatizes much radical 28 years later."

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Texas executed Charles Victor Thompson, the archetypal idiosyncratic enactment to decease successful the U.S. this year. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)

"I’m atrocious for what I did. I’m atrocious for what happened, and I privation to archer each of y’all, I emotion you and that … support Jesus successful your life, support Jesus first," helium said successful his last words.

Thompson gasped loudly arsenic the injection began taking effect, according to The Associated Press, earlier taking astir a twelve breaths that turned into snoring sounds. He past stopped moving and was pronounced dormant astir 22 minutes later.

After witnessing the execution, Dennis Cain, whose lad was killed by Thompson, said, "He’s successful hell."

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Charles Victor Thompson was executed successful Texas for the 1998 killings of his ex-girlfriend and her caller boyfriend. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)

Harris County District Attorney Sean Tear, whose bureau prosecuted the case, said, "This section is closed."

"It was justness a agelong clip coming," helium added.

On the nighttime of the murders, Thompson visited Hayslip’s flat astatine 3 a.m. and got into an statement with Cain, according to tribunal records. Thompson was told to permission the analyzable aft constabulary were called, but returned 3 hours aboriginal and changeable the couple.

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An execution enclosure successful a Texas prison.  (AP)

Cain died astatine the scene, portion Hayslip died 1 week later.

Thompson’s archetypal decease condemnation was aboriginal overturned, but a assemblage again sentenced him to dice by lethal injection pursuing a caller punishment proceedings successful November 2005.

Not agelong aft being resentenced, Thompson escaped from the Harris County Jail successful Houston and spent 3 days connected the tally earlier being caught.

He was arrested successful Louisiana portion trying to acceptable up overseas ligament transfers successful an evident effort to fly to Canada.

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About an hr earlier the scheduled execution, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a little bid rejecting a last entreaty from Thompson. Earlier this week, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles denied Thompson’s petition to commute his decease condemnation to a lesser penalty.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.