A judge has set an execution date next year for a man convicted of robbing and killing a retired TCU professor who he kidnapped from a Fort Worth grocery store parking lot, authorities said.
Edward Busby, 53, was sentenced in 2005 to the death penalty after a jury found him guilty of capital murder in the killing of 77-year-old Laura Lee Crane.
Judge William Knight, who presides over Tarrant County Criminal District Court No. 2, signed an order on Dec. 10 for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to carry out Busby’s execution by lethal injection on May 14.
Crane, an education faculty member at Texas Christian University, retired as director of TCU’s Starpoint School, which serves students with learning difficulties. She was abducted outside a Tom Thumb store on Jan. 30, 2004…