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Texas kills

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

“Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted. It is finished.” - the final words of Larry Davis Reuters notes Larry Davis, 40, was condemned to die for the murder of Michael Barrow in the Texas panhandle town of Amarillo. Barrow’s parents found his body in his home after he had been beaten and stabbed to death. Four accomplices received lesser sentences for the slaying and prosecutors maintained Davis was the leader of the pack who directed the attack so his friends could earn a coveted gang tattoo. According to the Death Penalty Information Centre, Davis was the fourth person executed in Texas and the 16th nationwide since the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a temporary moratorium on capital punishment in April when it rejected a challenge to the three-drug cocktail used in most lethal injections...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on July 31, 2008 (boomark / email).