{"id":68730,"date":"2026-03-11T12:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T17:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/texas-to-execute-man-who-killed-his-girlfriend-and-her-eight-year-old-son-in-2013\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T12:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T17:57:09","slug":"texas-to-execute-man-who-killed-his-girlfriend-and-her-eight-year-old-son-in-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/texas-to-execute-man-who-killed-his-girlfriend-and-her-eight-year-old-son-in-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas to execute man who killed his girlfriend and her eight-year-old son in 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme court recently rejected Cedric Ricks\u2019 claim that potential jurors in his trial were eliminated based on race<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A north <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/texas\">Texas<\/a> man faces execution on Wednesday for fatally stabbing his girlfriend and her eight-year-old son nearly 13 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s 12-year-old son, Marcus Figueroa, was injured during the attack.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/11\/texas-execution-cedric-ricks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme court recently rejected Cedric Ricks\u2019 claim that potential jurors in his trial were eliminated based on race Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox A north Texas man faces execution on Wednesday for fatally stabbing his girlfriend and her eight-year-old son nearly 13 years ago. Cedric &#8230; <a title=\"Texas to execute man who killed his girlfriend and her eight-year-old son in 2013\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/texas-to-execute-man-who-killed-his-girlfriend-and-her-eight-year-old-son-in-2013\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Texas to execute man who killed his girlfriend and her eight-year-old son in 2013\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}