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10 Executions in 30 Days: Is there no halt to the 'Texas Killing Machine?'

Texas is set to thin out its death row before the week is over. Since mid-October Texas has executed eight inmates, with another two scheduled for execution by the end of this week. That's a total of ten executions in a little over thirty days, a new record even for the country's most active death penalty state.The high rates of Texas executions seen in October and November are a result of the logjam created when the U.S. Supreme Court effectively halted lethal injections around the country while it decided whether the killing method was unconstitutionally inhumane earlier this year. The Supreme Court's 7-2 decision last April held that injection was not unconstitutionally cruel and allowed executions to resume. Since then 17 executions have been carried out in Texas alone this year, the most in the nation...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on November 21, 2008 (boomark / email).