USA: MAN EXECUTED FOR RAPE AND TWO MURDERS

A man has been executed in Texas after receiving a death sentence for rape and murder in Texas in 1993. Peter Cantu, who together with five accomplishes kidnapped, violated, tortured and killed two girls age 14 and 16, has been executed by lethal injection. Cantu was le gang leader. Two members received death sentences for their roles, while three others were minors at the time of the crimes and are serving long jail sentences.