article_snippet.sent: A jury decided in 2004 that Kent Sprouse should be put to death, and unsuccessful appeals since then have focused on whether Kent Sprouse was mentally ill at the time of the slayings in 2002 and should be spared the death penalty.
article_snippet.sent: No new appeals are pending as Kent Sprouse's lethal injection scheduled for Thursday evening approaches.
article_snippet.sent: Kent Sprouse would be the fifth inmate executed this year in Texas, the nation's most active death penalty state.
article_snippet.sent: Kent Sprouse was charged but not tried for Moreno's death. '
article_snippet.sent: It was a senseless taking of two human lives,' Don Maxfield, the now retired Ellis County chief felony prosecutor who handled Kent Sprouse's trial, said last week. '
article_snippet.sent: The U.S. Supreme Court in November refused to review Kent Sprouse's case.
article_snippet.sent: I don't think it's too soon or too long or whatever,' Ferris Police Chief Sam Love said of Kent Sprouse's scheduled lethal injection. '
article_snippet.sent: Scene: Kent Sprouse is expected to be executed about 6 pm Thursday in Huntsville, more than 150 miles southeast of Dallas, by lethal injection.
highlights_snippet.sent: Kent Sprouse, 42, faces lethal injection at 6pm Thursday .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Kent Sprouse was sentenced to death in 2004 .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Kent Sprouse has not appealed the sentence recently .
  