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Anthony Allen Shore, age 55, is scheduled to die on October 18. Maria T. Jackson, CriminalrnDistrict Court Judge, Harris, TX, set the date for his execution on Thursday. Shore has been dubbedrnthe “Tourniquet Killer.” Between the 1980s and the 1990s, Houston’s Hispanicrnfemales were strangled with handmade tourniquets.
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For almost two decades, gruesome murders he committed went unsolved. Shore’s unravelingrnhappened when he sexually assaulted two girls, who were his relatives. He was arrested. Forrnsexually assaulting his two relatives, he accepted a plea bargain arrangement that entailed givingrnup DNA and being placed on