articleThe Brief Charles Thompson was the first Texas execution of the year on Wednesday. Thompson was sentenced to death for the 1998 killings of his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend in Houston. A man convicted of the double murder of his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend in 1998 was executed Wednesday night. Charles Thompson (Texas Department of Criminal Justice)Thompson's attorneys filed for a stay of execution earlier this month claiming ineffective counsel during his trial and claiming that the hospital was at fault for Hayslip's death. Other executions scheduled in TexasThompson's death Wednesday night was the first of four scheduled executions in Texas this year.