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Texas Execution

By Steve Hall

Texas is scheduled to carry out its 14th execution of the year, tonight in Huntsville.  It would be the state's 461st 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.  The Courier of Montgomery County has, "Judge denies execution stay for Jonathon Green."  It's written by Nancy Flake.A Montgomery man scheduled to die Wednesday for the June 21, 2000, murder of a 12-year-old Dobbin girl is mentally competent for execution, a Montgomery County judge ruled Monday.Unless the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals or a federal court rules for a stay of execution, Jonathan Marcus Green, 42, will be put to death by lethal injection at 6 p...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 30, 2010 (boomark / email).