Texas ? Kansas prison escapee Charles Edward Smith was executed Wednesday evening in Huntsville for the fatal shooting of a sheriff’s deputy who was trying to pull him over for stealing $22.50 worth of gasoline from a service station.

Smith, 41, and a cousin, Carroll Smith, had fled from a minimum security prison in Shawnee County, Kan., five days before the Aug. 19, 1988, slaying of the 61-year-old deputy.

Charles Smith had served about a year of a one- to five-year sentence for burglary, theft and aiding a felony. His cousin was serving seven to 25 years for burglary, theft and criminal damage to property.