Texas executes killing spree ex-husband

The US state of Texas has executed a man who fatally shot five people in 1997 with a hunting rifle.

It was a killing spree launched when he found his ex-wife having sex with other men.

Coy Wesbrook, 58, was pronounced dead at 8.04pm (local time) after receiving a lethal injection at the state's death chamber in Huntsville.

His execution had been delayed by about two hours due to a last-minute appeal.

The execution was the 535th in Texas since the US Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, the most of any state.