Charles Victor Thompson, 55, was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. CST following the injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. As the injection began taking effect, Thompson gasped loudly, then took about a dozen breaths that evolved into three snores. Cain died at the scene, and Hayslip died in a hospital a week later." A jury again ordered him to die by lethal injection. Texas has historically held more executions than any other state though Florida had the most in 2025 with 19.