The State of Texas has executed a 41-year-old man convicted of the 2004 brutal murder of a 20-year-old mother, making Moises Sandoval Mendoza the 13th death row inmate to have their sentence carried out this year.

Mendoza, 40, was executed by lethal injection for the murder of 20-year-old Rachelle O'Neil Tolleson on March 18, 2004, in Farmersville, Texas.

A Texas man has been executed for the killing of a young mother more than 20 years ago. Moises Sandoval Mendoza apologized to the victim's relatives present just before he received a lethal injection Wednesday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.