Texas to execute man who killed his girlfriend and her eight-year-old son in 2013

Supreme court recently rejected Cedric Ricks’ claim that potential jurors in his trial were eliminated based on race Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox A north Texas man faces execution on Wednesday for fatally stabbing his girlfriend and her eight-year-old son nearly 13 years ago. Cedric Ricks was sentenced to death for the May 2013 killings of 30-year-old Roxann Sanchez and her son Anthony Figueroa at their apartment in Bedford, a suburb in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Sanchez’s 12-year-old son, Marcus Figueroa, was injured during the attack. Ricks, 51, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection after 6pm central time at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, about 70 miles (113km) north of Houston. About nine hours before the scheduled execution, the US supreme court issued a brief order that rejected Ricks’ final appeal to block the execution from proceeding. No reason was given for the rejection. His attorneys had asked the court to stay his execution, arguing that prosecutors violated Ricks’ constitutional rights by eliminating potential jurors on the basis of race. Previous appeals by Ricks that alleged ineffective counsel and called