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Will Texas execute more than a dozen prisoners in the first quarter of 2009?

By Douglas A. Berman

Though not quite as eye-popping as this other Texas death row story, anyone who seriously studies the administration of capital punishment should be closely following the fact, as reported in this AP piece, that Texas is scheduled to execute a remarkable number of prisoners over the next few months: Texas is wasting little time this new year claiming its annual notoriety as the nation's most active capital punishment state. Convicted killer Curtis Moore, condemned for the slayings of three people during a drug-ripoff robbery in 1995 in Fort Worth, is set for lethal injection this week in what would be the first execution in the United States in 2009. It's the first of eight scheduled punishments this month in the U.S., all but two of them in Texas...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 10, 2009 (boomark / email).