{"id":254035,"date":"2013-04-25T18:46:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T23:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=254035"},"modified":"2013-04-26T17:09:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T22:09:41","slug":"killer-in-east-texas-slaying-abductions-set-to-die-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=254035","title":{"rendered":"Man Put to Death for East Texas Store Abduction Slaying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=254036\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-254036\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/04\/cobbrichard-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"cobbrichard\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-254036\" \/><\/a>HUNTSVILLE (AP) \u2013 A Texas inmate has been executed for fatally shooting one of three people he and a partner abducted during a Rusk convenience store robbery nearly 11 years ago. 29-year-old Richard Cobb received lethal injection Thursday evening for using a 20-gauge shotgun to kill Kenneth Vandever in a field where two women also were shot and one was raped. The punishment was carried out after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-day appeal. Cobb\u2019s lawyers contended a prison expert gave false testimony at Cobb\u2019s trial in 2004 that tainted his punishment. State attorneys argued the testimony was accurate and the appeal was a meritless attempt to delay the execution. It\u2019s the fourth execution this year in Texas. Cobb\u2019s partner, Beunka Adams, was put to death a year ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HUNTSVILLE (AP) \u2013 A Texas inmate has been executed for fatally shooting one of three people he and a partner abducted during a Rusk convenience store robbery nearly 11 years ago. 29-year-old Richard Cobb received lethal injection Thursday evening for using a 20-gauge shotgun to kill Kenneth Vandever in a field where two women also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=254035\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Man Put to Death for East Texas Store Abduction Slaying<\/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-254035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-06 18:10:42","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\/254035","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=254035"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254440,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254035\/revisions\/254440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}