Edward Busby's execution had been on hold for nearly a week but a decision by the Supreme Court on Thursday allowed it to move forward.

Edward Busby's execution had been on hold for nearly a week but a decision by the Supreme Court on Thursday allowed it to move forward.

A man who experts said was intellectually disabled has become the 600th person executed in Texas since the state resumed carrying out the death penalty in 1982.

Texas on Thursday executed a 53-year-old man for the 2004 murder of an elderly woman, marking the state's 600th execution of the modern era.

Edward Busby Jr. was pronounced dead hours after the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a stay over his disabilities claims.