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

Dallas TX

01 July, 2021

11:08 AM

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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. CBS Local Digital Media personalizes the global reach of CBS-owned and operated television and radio stations with a local perspective.