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Texas man executed for 2003 strangling death of his mother

Headline from WFMZ Allentown

Texas has executed an inmate for killing his mother and burying her body in her backyard nearly 20 years ago. Tracy Beatty was given a lethal injection Wednesday evening at

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  1. Courthouse News Service

    Texas to execute man for killing mother nearly 20 years ago (opens Courthouse News Service)

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    Courthouse News Service's feed description

    One expert who examined Tracy Beatty said he “is clearly psychotic and has a complex paranoid delusional belief system.”

  2. NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

    Texas Set tot Execute Man Who Killed His Mother And Buried Her Body in Her Backyard (opens NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth)

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    NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth's feed description

    A Texas inmate whose lawyers say has a history of mental illness faces execution on Wednesday for killing his mother and burying her body nearly 20 years ago.

  3. CBS News

    Texas set to execute man who killed his mother and buried her body in her backyard (opens CBS News)

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    Tracy Beatty's lawyers say he has a history of mental illness and have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay his execution.

  4. KIII Corpus Christi

    U.S. Supreme Court declines blocking Wednesday execution of Texas man who killed his mother in 2003 (opens KIII Corpus Christi)

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    Beatty was sentenced in August 2004 for the capital murder of his mother Carolyn “Callie” Ruth Click, who he strangled and later buried in the backyard.

  5. NBC News

    Texas set to execute man for killing his mother, burying body in her backyard (opens NBC News)

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    Attorneys for Tracy Beatty, 61, asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay his execution, scheduled for Wednesday, arguing he was being prevented from receiving a full examination to determine if he is intellectually disabled and possibly ineligible to be put to death.

  6. Fox News

    Texas executes inmate for 2003 strangulation death of mother (opens Fox News)

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    A Texas death row inmate was executed Wednesday nearly 20 years after he killed his mother after an argument.

  7. WFMZ Allentown

    Texas man executed for 2003 strangling death of his mother (opens WFMZ Allentown)

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    WFMZ Allentown's feed description

    Texas has executed an inmate for killing his mother and burying her body in her backyard nearly 20 years ago. Tracy Beatty was given a lethal injection Wednesday evening at

  8. 10TV Columbus

    Texas man executed for strangling his mother to death in 2003 (opens 10TV Columbus)

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    Tracy Beatty, 61, received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Texas.

  9. NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

    Texas Executes Man Who Killed His Mother and Buried Her Body in Her Backyard (opens NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth)

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    NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth's feed description

    A Texas inmate was executed on Wednesday for killing his mother and burying her body nearly 20 years ago.

  10. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

    Texas man who killed mother in ’03 is executed (opens Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)

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    Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's feed description

    A man who killed his mother and buried her body in her backyard was executed Wednesday in Texas despite his lawyers' appeals that he should not be put to death because he had a history of mental illness.

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