This handout image provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Arturo Diaz. Diaz, 37, is set for execution Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013 for the slaying of a 25-year-old man who was stabbed nearly 100 times during a robbery in McAllen, Texas. He also has two life prison terms for attempted capital murder and aggravated robbery, plus a 94-year sentence for aggravated sexual assault. Diazs scheduled injection with a lethal dose of pentobarbital would be the first in the state using the barbiturate supplied from an as yet undisclosed vendor or manufacturer. (AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice)
A South Texas man convicted of stabbing another man to death for $50 was executed by lethal injection in Texas Thursday, the Associated Press reports.
Arturo Diaz, 37, was put to death for the 1999 slaying of Michael Nichols, 25, who was bound with shoelaces and bedding and stabbed 94 times before being robbed of $50. Diaz was also serving sentences for attempted murder and robbery of another man who survived, and for raping a jail inmate.
Diaz, who said he was high on drugs and alcohol when he murdered Nichols, also confessed to killing another man a month earlier by stomping his head and beating it with a hammer.