Texas executes man who killed 7-year-old girl (Reuters)

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) ? A registered sex offender in Texas convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering a 7-year-old girl was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday, state prison officials said.

In 1999, Guadalupe Esparza abducted Alyssa Vasquez from her San Antonio home when her babysitter was at a neighbor's place, authorities said. Her strangled body was found in a nearby field.

On the night Alyssa died, Esparza had called and visited her home, looking for her mother, according to an account of the case by the Texas attorney general's office. DNA testing showed the sperm found on Alyssa's body belonged to Esparza.

Esparza was the 13th person executed in Texas this year and the 42nd in the United States.

(Reporting by Corrie MacLaggan; Editing by Jerry Norton)

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