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Robert and Zelda Vicha
the U.S. Supreme Court
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles
Billie Wayne Coble
Gordon Wayne Coble
Dalton Coble
1982.He
Bobby Vicha
Karen Vicha
J.R. Vicha
Bobby Vicha’s
father.“Still
Barry Johnson
A. Richard Ellis
Juan A. Lozano
Marine
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HUNTSVILLE
Texas
Texas’
Huntsville
Axtell
Waco
Bosque County
McLennan County District
U.S.
a Vietnam War
the Vietnam War
Both have been released on $1,000 bond each.The 70-year-old Billie Wayne Coble was the oldest inmate executed by Texas since the state resumed carrying out capital punishment in 1982.He was convicted nearly three decades ago for the August 1989 shooting deaths of Robert and Zelda Vicha, and their son, Bobby Vicha. Richard Ellis, told the courts that Coble suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder stemming from his time as a Marine during the Vietnam War. Ellis argued that Coble was convicted in part because of misleading testimony from two prosecution expert witnesses on whether he would be a future danger.Coble was the third inmate put to death this year in the U.S. and the second in Texas, the nation’s busiest capital punishment state.J.R. Vicha, 40, still lives in the Waco area.
As said here by JUAN A. LOZANO and MICHAEL GRACZYK