The U.S. Supreme Court denied a last-minute appeal from a Texas death row inmate on Wednesday, clearing the way for the state to execute the man convicted of firing into a children's birthday party, killing a woman and her 5-year-old granddaughter. The decision was released less than 15 minutes before Texas planned to put Erick Davila, 31, to death by lethal injection at 6 p.m. at its execution chamber in Huntsville. If the execution goes ahead, it will be the ninth this year in the United States and the 550th in Texas since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, the most of any state.
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