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First execution of the Obama era carried out in Texas

By Douglas A. Berman

There has been intriguingly little discussion of the death penalty at the national level in recent months(perhaps because, as suggested here and here, the Bush Administration may have been secretly supporting a moratorium on federal executions).  But, of course, the administration of capital punishment in Texas rarely takes a holiday: as detailed in this CNN story, the state executed a double-murderer last night.  The CNN story notes that the defendant executed in Texas yesterday claimed he killed in self defense.  But, unable to get others to agree, the defendant ended up having the (historic?) distinction of being the first person executed during the first term of the first black President.  For readers eager to track death penalty trivia, this executed Texas defendant's name was Frank Moore...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 22, 2009 (boomark / email).