22 July 2010 :

Derrick Jackson, 42, black, was executed. He contended he was unfairly convicted by a Harris County jury of the Sept. 10, 1988 fatal beatings and slashings of Forrest Henderson and Richard Wrotenbery, both 31. Their September 1988 slayings inside Henderson's apartment went unsolved for years until a bloody fingerprint from the murder scene was matched to Jackson. By then, in 1995, Jackson already was in prison serving a 12-year term for aggravated robbery. Fingerprints on a beer can, a glass and a door knob were linked to Jackson. Stains on bathroom towels matched his DNA. Jackson becomes the 15th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in Texas and the 462nd overall since the state resumed capital punishment on December 7, 1982. Jackson becomes the 32nd condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1220th overall in the USA since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977.