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Texas ?08

By cdw

TCADP has a year end round-up, Texas Death Penalty Developments in 2008, that effectively deals with that state’s developments, from stays, x-dates & new death sentences. While the total number of executions in Texas declined slightly in 2008 as a result of the de facto moratorium that existed until April 16, the rate at which these executions took place appeared to exceed all previous measures. The State of Texas was again the national outlier in terms of executions, accounting for half of all people put to death nationwide in 2008. Of the eight other states that carried out executions, none accounted for more than four. Yet the number of executions that took place was not matched by the number of new people condemned to death in 2008...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on December 07, 2008 (boomark / email).