Texas executes 600th inmate since death penalty was reinstated in 1976

Texas executed its 600th inmate Thursday evening, administering a lethal injection to Edward Busby in Huntsville and reinforcing its status as the nation's leading death penalty state even as the pace of executions continues to slow.

Florida is a distant second, having executed 131 people since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976...