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HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Joshua Maxwell, convicted of murder in Indianapolis in 2005, has been portrayed along with his girlfriend as living out the violence-glorifying film “Natural Born Killers.”

His final scene could be played out Thursday evening in Huntsville. That’s when Maxwell is set to die in the Texas death chamber for the robbery and fatal shooting of an off-duty sheriff’s deputy in San Antonio in October 2000.

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Evidence showed the slaying of 40-year-old Rudy Lopes II, a sergeant with the Bexar County Sheriff’s Department, was one of at least two killings during of a cross-country crime spree involving Maxwell and former stripper girlfriend Tessie McFarland.

A Marion County judge in March 2005 sentenced Maxwell to 91 years in prison for killing a man at a Speedway home after a jury convicted him of murder, criminal confinement, arson and theft in the September 2000 death of Robby L. Bott, 45. Prosecutors said Maxwell, 24, and his girlfriend abducted Bott, forced him to take them shopping, then strangled him.

After killing Bott, police say, Maxwell and Tessie McFarland, 25, drove across the country, killing the off-duty sheriff’s deputy in Texas before being caught in San Francisco after a shootout with police.

In 2002, Maxwell was sentenced to death in Texas for the murder of Lopes, then brought back to Indianapolis for the Bott case.

In case an action would spare Maxwell’s life, Marion Superior Court Judge Patricia Gifford ordered his Indiana sentence to begin after he completes his Texas sentence.

The 31-year-old Maxwell would be the fourth prisoner executed this year in Texas.