Man set to be executed for killing of Texas college student

A Texas death row inmate who has always maintained his innocence and contends his conviction was based on junk science is set to be executed for the abduction, rape and murder of a suburban Houston college student more than 20 years ago. Larry Swearingen, 48, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Wednesday evening for the December 1998 killing of Melissa Trotter. Prosecutors said they stand behind the "mountain of evidence" used to convict Swearingen in 2000.

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