{"id":713356,"date":"2018-05-08T10:32:39","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T15:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=713356"},"modified":"2018-05-09T10:51:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T15:51:57","slug":"east-texas-inmate-gets-execution-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=713356","title":{"rendered":"East Texas Inmate Gets Execution Date"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"TYLER (Staff\/AP) — A death row inmate from Smith County is now due to be executed September 26. According to our news partner KETK, the 7th District Court set the date Monday for 50-year-old Troy James Clark. In 1998, Clark was condemned for the torture and drowning murder of his former roommate, Christina Muse, 20, of Tyler. Evidence showed that Clark and co-defendant Tory Gene Bush hit Muse with a stun gun, beat her, bound her, and kept her in a closet before drowning her in a bathtub. Prosecutors said the two then stuffed Muse’s body into a barrel with cement mix and lime before dumping it in a ravine. Her body was discovered five months later. Authorities say Clark and Bush feared Muse would snitch on them for using and selling methamphetamine. Bush pleaded guilty in 2000 to a murder charge and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TYLER (Staff\/AP) — A death row inmate from Smith County is now due to be executed September 26. According to our news partner KETK, the 7th District Court set the date Monday for 50-year-old Troy James Clark. In 1998, Clark was condemned for the torture and drowning murder of his former roommate, Christina Muse, 20, … Continue reading East Texas Inmate Gets Execution Date<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":713357,"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-713356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 08:36:44","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\/713356","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=713356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":713358,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713356\/revisions\/713358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/713357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=713356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=713356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=713356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}