Texas prison officials executed an inmate by lethal injection Wednesday evening for strangling a woman who was running near her Houston home nearly 30 years ago. The U.S. Supreme Court refused a last minute effort to save the life of Arthur Lee Burton. He was pronounced dead at 6:47 p.m CDT, Texas prison officials said. “Yes. I want to say thank you to all the people who support me and pray for me. For those of you I know and do not know thank you for your support and prayers. 27,27 and a full circle to all the guys at the Polunsky Unit, I love you guys,” Burton said in his final words. “Bird,…