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Executions on the Gulf Coast

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Mississippi & Texas tonight conducted executions: Leo Bishop was pronounced dead at 6:14 p.m. CT at the Mississippi State Penitentiary. He was convicted of participating in the hammer slaying of Marcus James Gentry in 1998. His attorneys had asked the U.S. Supreme Court and the state’s governor to commute the sentence to life in prison because he did not swing the hammer. The man who did, Jessie Johnson, was tried separately and sentenced to life without parole. In Huntsville, Texas, Derrick Sonnier, 40, was executed by lethal injection for stabbing Melody Flowers and her 2-year-old son, Patrick, in 1991 at their suburban Houston apartment. He was pronounced dead at 6:18 p.m. CT as Flowers’ family watched, the Houston Chronicle writes...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on July 23, 2008 (boomark / email).