Texas executes Lester Bower, who spent three decades on death row

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas on Wednesday executed Lester Bower, 67, one of the longest-serving inmates on the state's death row who was convicted of killing four people in 1983. Bower, who spent more than three decades on death row, was pronounced dead at 6:36 p.m. CDT after being given a lethal injection at the state's death chamber in Huntsville, a prisons official said. (Reporting by Jon Herskovitz; Editing by Sandra Maler)