Published: August 07, 2008 10:12 pm

By Kristin Edwards
Huntsville Item Staff Reporter

A man convicted of the 1991 aggravated robbery and murder of an Arlington store manager was executed Thursday at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Walls Unit.

Heliberto Chi, 29, was pronounced dead at 6:25 p.m., less than three hours after the Supreme Court denied his final appeal in a 9-0 vote.

“Heliberto Chi was executed Thursday for the 2001 slaying of Armand Paliotta, the manager of K&G Men’s Store in Arlington,” TDCJ representative Jason Clark said. “He also shot an 18-year-old who was later able to identify him.”

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