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Another Texas Execution Date Set

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In today's Houston Chronicle, Rosanna Ruiz reports, "Execution set for man who killed Humble toddler, mom."A man who killed a 2-year-old Humble boy and his mother after she repeatedly rejected his advances is the third Texas death row inmate scheduled to die since the Supreme Court's ruling on lethal injection. State District Judge Mike Wilkinson granted the state's request Wednesday that Derrick Sonnier be sent to Texas' death chamber June 3. The 40-year-old was sentenced to death for the 1991 rape and murder of Melody Flowers, 27, and the stabbing death of her son, Patrick. This is the second execution date set in his case. Last November, Harris County prosecutors agreed to set aside the original execution date of Feb. 26 to await the high court's ruling on the constitutionality of the lethal injection process.continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 24, 2008 (boomark / email).