{"id":250892,"date":"2013-04-09T18:44:51","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T23:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=250892"},"modified":"2013-04-10T17:10:23","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T22:10:23","slug":"tyler-man-with-long-record-set-to-die-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=250892","title":{"rendered":"Texas Executes Man for 1990 Fatal Shooting, Rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/04\/Rickey-Lynn-Lewis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/04\/Rickey-Lynn-Lewis-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Rickey Lynn Lewis\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-249282\" \/><\/a>HUNTSVILLE (AP) \u2013 A Texas convict with a lengthy criminal history has been executed for fatally shooting a man and raping the slain man\u2019s fiancee. Fifty-year-old Rickey Lynn Lewis of Tyler received a lethal injection Tuesday evening for the murder of 45-year-old George Newman more than 22 years ago. Newman\u2019s slaying and the rape of Newman\u2019s fiancee took place at their home in a rural area of Smith County. Lewis had been in and out of prison five times in less than seven years when he was arrested three days after Newman was killed in September 1990. No last-day appeals were filed to try to delay the punishment. It\u2019s the second execution in Texas this year. At least 11 others are scheduled for the coming months. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HUNTSVILLE (AP) \u2013 A Texas convict with a lengthy criminal history has been executed for fatally shooting a man and raping the slain man\u2019s fiancee. Fifty-year-old Rickey Lynn Lewis of Tyler received a lethal injection Tuesday evening for the murder of 45-year-old George Newman more than 22 years ago. Newman\u2019s slaying and the rape of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=250892\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Texas Executes Man for 1990 Fatal Shooting, Rape<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-06 12:19:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250892"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251306,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250892\/revisions\/251306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}