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Kelley Shannon writes the Texas AP dispatch, "States' death row injections get OK after high court ruling," via the San Antonio Express-News.  Shannon has an excellent roundup of news and quotes from other states in the report.Many states wasted little time trying to get executions back on track following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding the use of a three-drug lethal cocktail. Almost immediately, Virginia lifted its death penalty moratorium. Mississippi and Oklahoma said they would seek execution dates for convicted murderers, and other states were ready to follow. The ruling Wednesday "should put an end to the de facto moratorium on the death penalty caused by legal challenges to this method of execution," said Kent Scheidegger of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, a nonprofit group that supports the death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 17, 2008 (boomark / email).