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Execution news and notes from Japan and Texas

By Douglas A. Berman

This morning brings executions news from both the national and international new desks. From the AP, "Texas executes former security guard for killing four": Texas executed a former Houston security guard Wednesday for gunning down four people, including his ex-girlfriend and her two small children, during an October 1996 shooting frenzy.  Virgil Martinez, 41, was condemned for killing 27-year-old Veronica Fuentes; her children, 5-year-old Joshua and 3-year-old Casandra; and an 18-year-old neighbor, John Gomez, in Alvin, just south of Houston. Martinez was the fourth Texas inmate executed this year and the first of two on consecutive nights this week in the nation's most active death penalty state. From CNN, "Japan executes four death-row inmates": Japan executed four convicted killers on death row on Thursday, the government said, marking the first set of executions in the country since October 2008...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 29, 2009 (boomark / email).