Larry Swearingen

Execution: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 at 6 p.m.

Ninth Texas District Court Judge, Fred Edwards set Swearingen's latest execution date after the state Court of Criminal Appeals rejected the convict's most recent appeal. Swearingen was convicted in the June, 2000 of the abduction and murder of college student Melissa Trotter.  He has since been sentenced to die by lethal injection on three occasions – January 2007, January 2009 and August 2011. He was granted stays as his claim of innocence wound its way through the appellate courts. Swearingen's latest stay came Jan. 30, 2013, when a judge struck the execution date of Feb. 27 to allow for further DNA testing. Swearingen is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m. Feb. 27 in the Texas Department of Corrections' Walls Unit in downtown Huntsville.

Courtesy: Execution Watch