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Texas on Pace to Execute Far More in 2009

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That's the title of Anna Tinsley's article in today's Fort Worth Star-Telegram.  LINKAs states debate whether to stop executing criminals, Texas ? long the nationwide leader in executions ? has picked up the pace and is on a rate to execute perhaps twice as many Death Row inmates this year as in 2008.On Tuesday, Texas marked its 11th execution of the year and the 12th is scheduled for tonight, moving the state closer to last year?s 18 executions ? a lower-than-average number because executions were frozen for months last year as the Supreme Court studied whether lethal injection was unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment. "Texas is far and away the most frequent user of the death penalty," said Cal Jillson, a political science professor at Southern Methodist University...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 11, 2009 (boomark / email).