Texas man faces execution for killing convenience store clerk in 2000
Jamaal Howard, 46, is scheduled for execution by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 2000 murder of convenience store clerk Vickie Swartout, 42. During a robbery in Silsbee, Texas, Howard shot Swartout once in the chest, stealing $114 and cigarettes. His lawyers claim he is intellectually disabled, but the state argues he lacks sufficient evidence to support this claim.