A North Texas man, Cedric Ricks, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection for the 2013 killings of his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son. Ricks, 51, was sentenced to death for the May 2013 murders of 30-year-old Roxann Sanchez and her son Anthony Figueroa at their apartment in Bedford.
Ricks' attorneys have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay his execution, arguing that prosecutors violated Ricks' constitutional rights by eliminating potential jurors on the basis of race.
Prosecutors said Ricks and Sanchez were arguing when Sanchez's two sons tried to break up the fight, and Ricks grabbed a knife and began stabbing Sanchez multiple times. He then killed Anthony Figueroa and attempted to kill his other son, Marcus Figueroa, who survived the attack by playing dead.
