Texas Executes Indiana Man in Deputy’s Death

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) _ An Indiana man whose cross-country crime spree with his girlfriend a decade ago ended in a gun battle with police in San Francisco has been executed in Texas for robbing and murdering a sheriff’s officer in San Antonio.

No late court appeals were filed for 31-year-old Joshua Maxwell, who was condemned for gunning down Bexar County Sheriff’s Department Sgt. Rudy Lopes and stealing his truck. The 45-year-old veteran jailer was off duty at the time.

The U.S. Supreme Court last week refused to review Maxwell’s case. Maxwell also was convicted of killing a man in Indiana.

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