Gary Graham, subject of the most contentious Texas death penalty case since Gov. George W. Bush began running for president, was executed after putting up a struggle and insisting he was innocent of a 1981 murder.
Graham, 36, received a lethal injection for the killing of Bobby Lambert, 53, in a holdup outside a Houston supermarket. The state parole board and appeals courts rejected his arguments that he was convicted on shaky evidence from a single eyewitness and that his trial ...