Credit: Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Carl Blue
Associated Press
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 9:25 AM
Updated today at 6:54 PM
HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to halt the execution of a man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend at her apartment by tossing gasoline on her and then setting her on fire.
The high court made its decision Thursday evening, shortly before 48-year-old Carl Blue was scheduled to be executed in Texas.
Blue was sentenced to die for the September 1994 death of Carmen Richards-Sanders. The 38-year-old woman and a man with her were attacked at her apartment in Bryan, about 100 miles northwest of Houston. The man survived serious burns and testified against Blue.
Prosecutors said the attack was the result of jealousy. Blue said it was a prank gone wrong or an accident.
His death will be the first execution this year in the nation's most active death penalty state.
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