Karl Eugene Chamberlain was executed

Karl Eugene Chamberlain was executed for the rape and slaying of a woman, Felecia Prechtl, 17 years ago, the first Texas prisoner in nearly nine months put to death in the nation's most active capital punishment state. When he was arrested, he confessed. Chamberlain becomes the 1st condemned inmate to be put to death this year in Texas, the 6th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1105th overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977.