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Texas Execution

By Steve Hall

Texas is scheduled to carry out its 17th execution of 2009, tonight in Huntsville.  It would be the state's 440th execution since 1982.  Texas has far and away the most active death chamber in America, accounting for more than 37% of the nation's post-Furman executions..  There have been 37 executions in the nation this year; 1,173 since 1977.The Houston Chronicle carries this AP report on the scheduled execution of Stephen Moody.Moody, 52, asked that no last-minute appeals be filed to try to block his execution, the 17th this year in the nation's busiest death penalty state. Houston's KPFT-FM will host Execution Watch on the web and it's HD radio broadcast signal beginning at 6:00 p.m. (CDT), tonight.

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 16, 2009 (boomark / email).