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Autumnal execution news and notes

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this AP article, the pace of executions in Texas is poised to speed up over the next few months.  Here is how the piece starts:The crowd on A-Wing A-Section at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit at Livingston is about to get thinned.  A dozen condemned inmates in the so-called ?death watch? cells on Texas death row are set for lethal injection over the next six weeks. Two are scheduled for this week. Two next week. And two more the week after that. Then six more in November, adding to Texas? standing as the nation?s most active death penalty state.  ?It?s just the way of Texas,? Alvin Kelly, who on Tuesday is the first of the 12 set to die, said last week from a tiny visiting cage at the prison...continue to full post

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