Texas Executes John Hummel For Killing Wife And Father-In-Law Near Fort Worth

CBS Dallas/Fort Worth

July 1, 2021

A Texas inmate was executed Wednesday evening for an attack that killed his pregnant wife, 5-year-old daughter and father-in-law more than a decade ago.

John Hummel received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the December 2009 killings.

Authorities say John Hummel stabbed his wife, Joy Hummel, more than 30 times, then used a baseball bat to beat to death his daughter, Jodi Hummel, and his 57-year-old father-in-law, Clyde Bedford, who used a wheelchair. He then setting their home on fire in Kennedale, a Fort Worth suburb.

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