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Texas Execution ... And New Questions in Another Texas Death Case

By Steve Hall

Texas is scheduled to carry out its 18th execution of 2009, this evening in Huntsville.  It would be the state's 441st 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..  To date, there have been 38 executions in the nation this year; 1,174 since 1977. UPI reports, "New claim surfaces in death penalty case."New information regarding a 1995 drug slaying may help spare a former U.S. soldier sentenced to die this week, attorneys say.Defense lawyers for Christopher Coleman, 27, say the only survivor of a drug-related shooting -- who fingered Coleman as the trigger man -- has changed her story since her testimony 12 years ago...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 22, 2009 (boomark / email).