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Texas Executed Today its 451st Person since 1982; 212th Under Governor Rick Perry

By "Persian Cowboy"

Texas today executed its 451st person since 1982 and the 212th person since Governor Rick Perry took office in 2000.From the Houston Chronicle:An Indiana man whose cross-country crime spree with his girlfriend a decade ago ended in a gun battle with police in San Francisco was executed Thursday for robbing and murdering a sheriff's officer in San Antonio.No late court appeals were filed for Joshua Maxwell, 31, condemned for gunning down Bexar County Sheriff's Department Sgt. Rudy Lopes and stealing his truck in 2000. The 45-year-old veteran jailer was off duty at the time.The U.S. Supreme Court last week refused to review Maxwell's case. Maxwell also was convicted of killing a man in Indiana.Maxwell, his voice breaking and choking back tears, apologized repeatedly in the seconds before lethal drugs began flowing into his arms...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on March 12, 2010 (boomark / email).