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Texas Execution

By Steve Hall

Texas is scheduled to carry out its fourth execution of 2010, tonight in Huntsville.  It would be the 451st Texas 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 eight executions in the nation in 2010, and 1,196 executions since 1977. Today's San Antonio Express-News has Michelle Mondo's report, "Set to die today, killer calls his spree senseless."Looking back, Joshua Maxwell concedes it was all a waste.The Bonnie and Clyde comparisons, running from the law, the nationwide crime spree and most importantly, the deaths of his two victims: Bexar County sheriff's Sgt...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 11, 2010 (boomark / email).