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Noting the quicker pace of executions in Texas

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this AP story, Texas executed on Wednesday its second defendant is as many nights, bringing its total number of executions for 2009 up to 12.  And, reporting on a trend I have been noting in prior posts, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram has this article headlined "Texas on pace to execute far more in 2009."  Here are snippets: As states debate whether to stop executing criminals, Texas ? long the nationwide leader in executions ? has picked up the pace and is on a rate to execute perhaps twice as many Death Row inmates this year as in 2008....  Since 1976, there have been 432 executions in Texas, far more than in Virginia, which had the second highest number of executions with 103, according to the Death Penalty Information Center...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 12, 2009 (boomark / email).