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executed after last-minute appeal fails        Robert Garza //
File Photo         Robert Gene Garza became the 12th prisoner
executed this year in Texas, the nation's busiest capital
punishment state, when he was given a lethal injection Thursday
evening.        The 30-year-old Garza belonged to a Rio Grande
Valley street gang called the Tri-City Bombers that authorities
say was responsible for the shootings of the four women near
Donna in September 2002.        They also say the gang was
responsible for the massacre of six men at a home in nearby
Edinburg four months later.        Garza insisted a confession
he made to police was coerced and improperly obtained.