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Alabama & Texas kill

By cdw

Two executions are being reported tonight by the wire services: In Texas: Johnny Ray Johnson, 51, was pronounced dead at 6:19 p.m. Thursday. He was condemned for the 1995 murder of Leah Joette Smith, who was raped, beaten and left to die on a Houston street. In a lengthy final statement, Johnson denounced Texas death row in particular and called for an end to the death penalty in the United States.. . . The execution was the second this week and eighth this year in Texas, the nation’s most active death penalty state. In Alabama: Danny Joe Bradley received lethal injection at 6:15 p.m. at Holman prison after spending 25 years on death row. He was convicted of killing 12-year-old Rhonda Hardin, who disappeared while Bradley was supposed to be caring for the girl and her brother...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on February 12, 2009 (boomark / email).