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Two days, two executions, this is Texas

By "Persian Cowboy"

Michael Perry, slated for execution July 1 By Elizabeth SteinProducer, Execution WatchTexas is scheduled this week to execute two people in as many days, solidifying its reputation as death penalty capital of the Western world. Execution Watch will broadcast during each one RADIO PROGRAM PREVIEWEXECUTION WATCHJune 30, 2010, Wed., 6-7 pm Central TimeListen on KPFT's HD2 channel, 90.1 FM Houston, orGo to www.executionwatch. org at 6 p.m. CT, click on ?Listen.?SCHEDULED TO BE EXECUTED   JONATHAN GREEN, 42, was convicted and sentenced to death in 2002 by an all-white jury in the murder of a 12-year-old white girl in Dobbin, Texas, a small town 60 miles northwest of Houston. Green, who is African-American, suffers from mental illness, is functionally illiterate and is probably mentally retarded, his attorneys say...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on June 29, 2010 (boomark / email).