The first execution of District Attorney Sean Teare's tenure is scheduled Wednesday for Charles Victor Thompson in the 1998 deaths of his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend. Thompson, 55, spent 26 ...

The Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville, or Huntsville Unit, opened in 1849 and houses Texas' execution chamber. Texas is set to carry out its first execution of the year Wednesday. Charles Victor ...

A Texas man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend died by lethal injection Wednesday evening, marking the first US execution of the year. Charles Victor Thompson, 55, was ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas man who once escaped custody and spent three days on the run after being sentenced to death for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend received a lethal ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas – Charles Victor Thompson, 55, was put to death by lethal injection on Wednesday, Texas’ first execution of 2026. Thompson was convicted of murdering his former girlfriend, Dennise ...

Chuck Thompson has been on Texas Death Row for 27 years and is set to be executed in January. Credit: April Towery For Charles Victor Thompson, the one constant in his life has been the almost three ...