Texas set to execute man who has spent three decades on death row

By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - One of the longest-serving inmates on Texas' busy death row was set to be executed on Wednesday, more than three decades after being convicted of fatally shooting four people in 1983. Lawyers for Lester Bower filed a last-minute appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court last week that faults the sentencing, seeking to prevent the execution by lethal injection scheduled for 6 p.m. at the state's death chamber in Huntsville. If the execution goes ahead, it would be the 526th in Texas since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, the most of any state.

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