- Texas is scheduled to execute 46-year-old Jamaal Howard by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 2000 murder of Vickie Swartout.
- Howard was convicted of capital murder after store surveillance footage captured him shooting Swartout during a robbery where he stole $114 and cigarettes.
- If carried out, Howard's execution will mark the 30th execution in the United States this year and the seventh in Texas.
- Howard's attorneys have appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the execution, arguing that he is intellectually disabled.
- The state of Texas maintains that Howard has not presented sufficient evidence to meet the legal criteria for an intellectual disability claim.
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