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Two more executions in two states not debating the death penalty

By Douglas A. Berman

Though the fate of the death penalty continues to be debate in many states, tonight Texas and Georgia got on with the business of carrying out executions.  Here are details from this AP report: A man convicted of a double slaying was executed on Tuesday in Texas and another man was executed in Georgia for stabbing to death a neighbor who had spurned his sexual advances. In Texas, James Edward Martinez, 34, was executed at the state prison in Huntsville on Tuesday for the 2000 fatal shootings of Sandra Walton, 29, whom he dated briefly, and Michael Humphreys, 19, a friend of the woman, outside her Fort Worth apartment complex.... In Georgia, Robert Newland, 65, was put to death by lethal injection at the state prison at Jackson. He was the first person executed in Georgia this year...continue to full post

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