Texas executes ex-gang member for deaths of three

A former gang member has been put to death for the fatal shootings of three rivals 14 years ago in San Antonio.

This undated handout photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Miguel Paredes.

A former gang member has been put to death for the fatal shootings of three rivals 14 years ago in San Antonio.

Thirty-two-year-old Miguel Paredes was convicted along with two other men in the September 2000 slayings of three people with ties to the Mexican Mafia.

They were shot after showing up at a home to collect drug money. Their bodies were rolled up in a carpet, driven about 50 miles (80 kilometers) southwest, dumped and set on fire.

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Paredes was executed Tuesday evening after the US Supreme Court turned down a last-day appeal from attorneys who contended he was mentally impaired.

His execution was the 10th this year in Texas, the most active death-penalty state in the US One other Texas inmate is set to die in December.

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