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Pace of Texas Executions Revives Fairness Disputes

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That's the title of Steve Mills' article in today's Chicago Tribune.  LINKIn September, the execution of Michael Richard in Texas was steeped in controversy. The state's highest criminal court shut its doors at 5 p.m. and Richard's attorneys were unable to file last-minute appeals, even though the U.S. Supreme Court had halted executions earlier that day to consider whether lethal injection was cruel and unusual punishment. That was Texas' last lethal injection before the de facto moratorium on executions. When Texas resumed executions last week, there was controversy again, with lawyers for Karl Chamberlain saying the convicted murderer was executed even though they were still taking appeals to the nation's highest court. That the 8-month break in lethal injections in Texas was bookended by controversy comes as no surprise to observers of the nation's busiest death chamber...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 20, 2008 (boomark / email).