Ryan Dickson, 30, a street gang member convicted...

Ryan Dickson, 30, a street gang member convicted of fatally shooting an Amarillo couple during a botched beer theft at their grocery store more than a dozen years ago was executed.
Dickson was pronounced dead at 6:17 p.m..
He was just 2 weeks past his 18th birthday when he was arrested in the double homicide — hours after the bodies of Carmelo Surace, 61, and his wife, Marie, 60, were found by a customer at their store.
Police found a witness who recognized 4 young people running from the store Nov. 27, 1994, as being from the neighborhood. Dickson, his 14-year-old brother, Dane, and 2 friends soon were taken into custody.
Dane Dickson testified against his brother and is serving a 15-year prison term.
Dickson becomes the 13th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in Texas, the 15th this year in the USA and the 1072ne overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977.