Texas to execute man who killed his girlfriend and her eight-year-old son in 2013
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Supreme court recently rejected Cedric Ricks' claim that potential jurors in his trial were eliminated based on race
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.
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