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Texas kills / first execution of new year

By cdw

Texas tonight killed Curtis Moore.  IHT notes: In a brief, final statement, Curtis Moore, 40, thanked a woman who administers to the spiritual needs of death row inmates. “I want to thank you for all the beautiful years of friendship and ministry,” Moore told Irene Wilcox as she watched through a window a few feet (meters) from him. Moore never acknowledged a man who survived his attacks or five relatives of the three who died. He was pronounced dead eight minutes after the lethal drugs began flowing. Moore exhausted his appeals in the courts. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles earlier this week refused a clemency petition that said he could be mentally retarded and ineligible for the death penalty. Courts earlier rejected similar mental retardation claims...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on January 14, 2009 (boomark / email).