Definition: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Input: A man who bludgeoned a businessman to death while high on crack is to be executed today. Gregory Russeau beat car-repair shop owner James Syvertson to death in 2001, leaving his bloody body to be found by his family. He denied being responsible for the murder, alleging that police planted one of his hairs at the crime scene. However, a Texas jury found him guilty and he was sentenced to death. His execution will be the ninth performed by the state in 2015, with four more planned before the end of the year. Unless any last-minute appeals are successful, he will be put to death sometime after 6pm central time - shortly after midnight in the UK - with a lethal dose of pentobarbital.Gregory Russeau will be executed tonight for businessman's murderDenied crime but found guilty and sentenced to death by lethal injectionHe will become ninth prisoner in Texas to be executed this yearVictim's family say they have 'mixed emotions' about killer's sentence 
 Question:_ is on track to carry out more lethal injections than it did last year.

Texas