Ramiro Hernández, a hired hand who killed the Baylor University professor who employed him and raped the professor's wife, is scheduled to be killed by the state of Texas on Wednesday evening.

The US Department of State has today lamented the decision of the Texas court to execute Mexican citizen Edgar Tamayo Arias.

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto lamented the failure of the American Justice system in the execution of Mexican citizen Edgar Tamayo Arias.

The execution comes after Mexican officials and the US State Department asked the Texas governor's office and state parole board to review the case to determine whether Tamayo Arias had been notified of his right to legal assistance from the Mexican consulate. The 46-year-old is the 509th person to be executed in Texas.

Edgar Tamayo Arias was declared dead at 9:32 p.m. on Wednesday Jan. 22 following a lethal injection.

Despite a last-minute appeal, Edgar Tamayo Arias will be executed on Wednesday, Jan. 22 as planned.

Edgar Tamayo Arias was scheduled for execution on Wednesday at 6 p.m, however, following a last-minute appeal by his legal team, the execution has been stayed.

Despite numerous appeals from his legal team, Edgar Tamayo Arias is to be executed on Wednesday Jan. 22 at 6 p.m.

Members of the commission give Latin Times an opinion piece condemning Edgar Tamayo Arias' execution.

An Australian human rights group has contacted Latin Times to condemn the execution of Mexican national Edgar Tamayo Arias.

Edgar Tamayo Arias' lawyers have filed a lawsuit in Federal Court against the Texas Board of Pardons and Governor Rick Perry, whom they accuse of 'Inadequate Clemency Proceedings.'

Tthe Mexican government is demanding that US Authorities stay the execution of Edgar Tamayo Arias, a Mexican citizen currently on Death Row.

Mexico's foreign ministry has joined calls from US Secretary of State John Kerry and a host of Mexican lawmakers and international human rights groups in calling for Tamayo Arias' execution to be suspended until a review of his case was carried out.

William Happ will be executed tonight at 6pm ETD using a previously untested drug for lethal injection.

It is believed Kim-jong Un had his former girlfriedn executed by firing squad for making a pornographic film.

Andrew Lackey was executed Thursday night for the 2005 murder of 89-year-old Charlie Newman.

McCarthy, a former nursing home therapist who had become addicted to crack cocaine, was said to have killed her neighbor, cut off her finger to get her wedding ring, and pawned it for the drug.

Texas is approaching a grim milestone: It will soon execute the 500th prisoner since the death penalty resumed in the United States.

A longtime death row inmate in Florida, Larry Mann, was put to death Wednesday evening.

Nathan Dunlap, the Chuck E Cheese's murderer, has had his death penalty repeal dismissed, which means that he will likely be executed after 20 years in prison.