Texas Executes Charles Victor Thompson in First USA Death Penalty of 2026

Texas authorities executed Charles Victor Thompson by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 1998 murders of Glenda Dennise Hayslip and Darren Keith Cain.The procedure represented the first execution in the USA for 2026 after the country recorded its highest death penalty count since 2009 with 47 executions last year.Before his death, Charles Victor Thompson requested forgiveness from the victims' families and recalled his 2005 escape from a Houston jail before he was caught in Louisiana.