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Texas Set to Execute 462nd Person Since 1982; 223rd Under Governor Rick Perry

By "Persian Cowboy"

Today, July 20, 2010 Texas is set to execute Derrick Jackson. He would be the 462nd person executed in Texas since 1982 and the 223rd person since Rick Perry became governor. He would be the 15th person executed in Texas in 2010. Call Governor Perry and express your opposition to the death penalty 512 463-2000. Email Perry using his website contact form.From the AP:Nearly 22 years after two Houston opera singers were fatally battered and slashed inside their apartment, the man convicted of killing them is set to die Tuesday by lethal injection.Derrick Jackson, 42, would be the 15th Texas prisoner put to death this year in Huntsville in the nation's most active death penalty state. The execution is scheduled for after 6 p.m.A Harris County jury convicted Jackson and sentenced him to die in 1998 for the September 1988 murders of Forrest Henderson and Richard Wrotenbery, both 31 and chorus members at the Houston Grand Opera...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on July 20, 2010 (boomark / email).