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Busy pre-holiday weeks for executions

By Douglas A. Berman

Among many holiday season traditions is a traditional slow down in the number of executions nationwide.  For various reasons, executions are rarely scheduled for the week of Thanksgiving or during the 12 days of Christmas.  But this reality can often mean a large number of executions just before the typical holiday season slow down. This year, as detailed in this DPIC list of scheduled executions, we are on pace for an extraordinary pre-holiday rush of executions.  Specifically, there are five executions scheduled in three different states for  this pre-Turkey week (three in Texas and one in Kentucky and in Ohio).  And the week after Thanksgiving, there are four executions scheduled in four different states (Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee and Washington)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on November 18, 2008 (boomark / email).