'Tourniquet Killer' set to be executed in Texas

Posted: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 6:41 pm | Updated: 7:11 pm, Wed Jan 17, 2018.

'Tourniquet Killer' set to be executed in Texas Associated Press | 0 comments

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Houston-area sex offender who was convicted of killing a young woman and confessed to three more strangling deaths is set for lethal injection in Texas Thursday in what would be the first U.S. execution of 2018.

The Harris County District Attorney's office dubbed Anthony Allen Shore the "Tourniquet Killer" because of how he ended his victims' lives, using a stick to tightly twist a cord around their necks.

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