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Texas about to conduct back-to-back executions

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this AP article, the execution chamber in Texas is due to be busy this week: Condemned prisoner Jonathan Green faces lethal injection for the abduction, rape and strangling of a 12-year-old girl near Houston 10 years ago. Green is scheduled to die in the Texas death chamber in Huntsville on Wednesday evening. The 42-year-old inmate would be the 14th killer Texas has executed this year and the first of two on consecutive nights in the nation's most active death penalty state. Assuming these executions are conducted, there will have been already 31 execution in the US in 2010, nearly as many as the number of executions that were conducted in all of 2008.  As revealed by this yearly execution data at DPIC, 2010 may be on pace to have as many or more executions than any other year in nearly a decade.continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 30, 2010 (boomark / email).