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Texas back in the execution business

By Douglas A. Berman

This AP story presents the basic details of Texas' (long-awaited?) return to the business of state killing or killers:A remorseful convicted killer was executed Wednesday night for raping and killing a Dallas woman 17 years ago, the first prisoner in nine months to be put to death in the nation's most active capital punishment state.  Karl Eugene Chamberlain, with a smile on his face, told relatives of his victim, Felecia Prechtl that he wished he "could die more than once." Chamberlain lived upstairs in the same apartment complex as his victim. In 1991, he knocked on Prechtl's door and asked to borrow some sugar.  After she filled the request, he returned with a rifle and the roll of duct tape, attacked the single mother and shot her in the head...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 12, 2008 (boomark / email).