James Edward Martinez Executed

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - Texas has executed a Fort Worth man convicted of opening fire with an assault rifle to gun down a woman and a friend after stalking her to collect a debt.

Thirty-4-year-old James Edward Martinez was pronounced dead at 6:17 p.m. Tuesday.

He was condemned for the 2000 fatal shootings of Sandra Walton, 29, whom he dated briefly, and Michael Humphreys, 19, a friend of the woman, outside her Fort Worth apartment complex.

Martinez was the 11th Texas inmate executed this year and the first of 2 set to die on consecutive nights this week.  SOURCE