Derrick Frazier was executed for the the June 26...

Derrick Frazier was executed for the the June 26, 1997, slayings of a mother and her teenage son.
Frazier, 29, was the 2nd convicted murderer to die for the shooting deaths of Betsy Nutt, 41, and her son, Cody, 15.
On May 17 2006, Frazier's companion, Jermaine Herron, was executed. Frazier blamed the slayings on Herron. Herron, testifying at his own trial, blamed them on Frazier.
According to court records, both confessed with police saying that Herron shot Cody, handed the gun to Frazier and Frazier shot Betsy Nutt.
Frazier becomes the 20th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in Texas, and the 375th overall since the state resumed capital punishment on December 7, 1982.
Frazier becomes the 40th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1044th overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977.