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Texas Execution

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Texas is scheduled to carry out its 13th execution of 2009, tonight in Huntsville.  It would be the state's 436th execution since 1982.  Texas has far and away the most active death chamber in America, accounting for more than 37% of the nation's executions.  AP has this report on the scheduled execution of Michael Rosales, via the Dallas Morning News.Attorneys from the Texas Defender Service, a legal group involved in death penalty issues, lost a bid Tuesday in the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to halt the punishment. Their appeal argued Rosales was entitled to a qualified lawyer who should have at least six months to draw up a state clemency petition and further pursue claims Rosales may be mentally retarded and ineligible for execution...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 15, 2009 (boomark / email).