Texas man to be executed for murdering toddler

A US man convicted of beating his girlfriend’s two-year-old daughter to death in 1997 is set to be executed by lethal injection in Houston, Texas, tomorrow night.

Robert Salazar, 27, was baby-sitting Adriana Gomez when he inflicted at least three life-threatening injuries on her: a blow to the head, a blow to her chest that left her heart on the verge of rupturing and a blow to her abdomen that pushed internal organs against her spine.