Officer Elston Howard, right, was on the job for the Houston Police Department until he was murdered on July 20, 1988. His killer, Robert Mitchell Jennings, left, was caught almost immediately, and has finally been executed.

The Houston Chronicle doesn't say that either man was black. (The FoxNews story above doesn't say, either, but at least they ran pictures.)

Clue that the victim was black—a picture of his mother, Era Mae Howard, 83, who has been waiting all this time for justice.

Clue that the killer was black—this protest from Jennings's lawyer: