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Texas Execution

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Texas is scheduled to carry out its 16th execution of 2009, tonight in Huntsville.  It would be the state's 439th 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 and more than half of all exeuctions in 2009.  There have been 29 executions in the nation this year; 1,165 since 1977.Tonight's execution would be the 200th execution under the administration of Governor Rick Perry, who has served in the office longer than any other Texas governor.  Perry became governor on December 21, 2000, succeeding George W. Bush.  There were 152 executions during the Bush administration...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 02, 2009 (boomark / email).