BuzzFeed - Update: Willie Trottie was executed on Wednesday after the Supreme Court denied his stay requests. His lawyers had contended that Texas is using expired drugs to kill him and that he received inadequate legal representation at trial. Willie Trottie was executed about 90 minutes after the Supreme Court denied his stay requests, the Associated Press reported. He was pronounced dead at 6:35 p.m. CDT. Willie Trottie, 45, is scheduled to die by lethal injection in Texas on Wednesday at 7 p.m. ET, for murdering his common-law wife and her brother in 1993. AP Photo/Mike Graczyk The Supreme Court denied both of Willie Trottie's requests to hear appeals and issue a stay of execution for the Texas man, due to be executed at 7 p.m. EDT Wednesday. View Entire List âº
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