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Texas kills

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

via the Morning News: A convicted hit man was executed Tuesday evening for a triple slaying in Houston nearly 14 years ago. Christopher Coleman, 37, was condemned for his part in a scheme by a Colombian man who hoped to eliminate a drug debt by staging a robbery. Four people wound up shot in a car on a dead-end street. Three of them, including a 3-year-old boy, died. The lethal injection ? the 18th this year in Texas, the nation’s most active death penalty state ? was carried out after Coleman’s lawyers lost last-day appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court. Coleman was pronounced dead at 6:22 p.m. CDT, eight minutes after lethal drugs began flowing into his arms. No relatives of the victims chose to attend the punishment and Coleman selected no personal witnesses to watch him die...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on September 22, 2009 (boomark / email).