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Texas & Oklahoma Executions

By Steve Hall

Texas is scheduled to carry out its 16th execution of the year, tonight in Huntsville.  It would be the state's 463nd execution since 1982; the 224th in the administration of Governor Rick Perry.  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 AP report by Michael Graczyk is, "3rd trip to Texas death chamber for grieving dad," via Google News.Randy Ertman knows the road to the Texas death chamber too well. He's set to make the trip again, to witness for the third time the execution of one of the gang members responsible for the rape and murder of his teenage daughter and her schoolmate. This time, it will be the lethal injection on Tuesday of Peter Anthony Cantu, the leader of the five young men who were sentenced to die for the June 1993 murders of 14-year-old Jennifer Ertman and 16-year-old Elizabeth Pena...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 17, 2010 (boomark / email).