Though DNA evidence did not connect Larry Swearingen to the crime, prosecutors had a great deal of circumstantial evidence against him.
David Martin Davies / Texas Public Radio
Larry Swearingen during an interview with Texas Public Radio at the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville.
From Texas Public Radio:
Larry Swearingen is scheduled to be executed Wednesday by the State of Texas.
It was 19 years ago that Swearingen was convicted of the abduction, rape and murder of Melissa Trotter. This is the sixth time that Swearingen had a date with death in the Texas prison system. But lingering questions about his guilt have caused the courts to repeatedly step in.
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