On Wednesday, Reuters reports, Texas executed Raphael Holiday, 36, by lethal injection, making him the 531st person to be executed by the state since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. Holiday was convicted, in 2000, of killing his daughter and two stepdaughters in a fire.

“Yes, I would like to thank all of my supporters and loved ones,” Holiday said in his last statement, as quoted by Huntsville prison officials. “I love you, Love y’all, always going to be with y’all. Thank you Warden.”

Earlier on Wednesday, a judge had ruled that Holiday’s execution be halted, the Dallas Morning News reports, but the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned that decision. He was pronounced dead at 8:30 p.m. local time, 19 minutes after the pentobarbital was injected—the 13th person to be executed in Texas this year. (Texas puts more people to death than any other state.)

Holiday was convicted in the killing Tierra Lynch, 7; Jasmine DuPaul, 5; and Justice Holiday, 1. From Reuters:

He had been living with Tami Wilkerson, his common law wife at the time, until she secured a restraining order against him for sexually assaulting Tierra, according to the Texas attorney general’s office.

About six months later, Holiday, who had attempted to reconcile with Wilkerson, returned to the house and forced the girls’ grandmother at gunpoint to douse the home with gasoline, which ignited, it said. The grandmother survived.

After watching the blaze, he fled the scene in a vehicle and was caught after a high-speed chase with police. The bodies of the three girls were later found huddled together in the charred remains of the home, the office said.

“I loved my kids,” Holiday told the Associated Press in a recent interview. “I never would do harm to any of them.”

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