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HOUSTON: A Texas man who spent more than 30 years on death row for a murder he committed during a robbery when he was 19 was executed on Thursday.Brent Brewer, 53, was put to death by lethal injection at 6:38 pm Central Time (0038 GMT) at the Texas State Penitentiary in the town of Huntsville, prison officials said.Brewer was sentenced to death in 1991 for fatally stabbing 66-year-old Robert Laminack the previous year, in a robbery that netted $140 in cash.Laminack had been giving a ride to Brewer...