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Arnold Prieto's execution by injection is planned for 6 p.m.
CST at the state's prison death chamber in Huntsville. If it
takes place, Prieto, 41, will be the 519th person executed in
Texas since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty
in 1976, the most of any state.
Prieto and two other men went to the home of Rodolfo Rodriguez,
72, and his wife, Virginia, 62, who cooked the visitors
breakfast. Prieto and Jesse Hernandez then used screwdrivers to
attack the couple, also killing Paula Moran, 92, who was in the
house, the Texas Attorney General's Office said.
The three ransacked the house, stealing cash and goods valued at
a few hundred dollars, it said.
Hernandez was under 18 years of age at the time of the crime and
could not be sentenced to death because he was a minor. He is
currently serving a life sentence.
The other person with the assailants, Lupe Hernandez, brother of
Jesse, was not charged.
As of Tuesday afternoon, no appeals seeking a halt of Prieto's
execution had been filed.
(Reporting by Jon Herskovitz; Editing by Bill Trott)
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