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Texas Execution

By Steve Hall

Texas is scheduled to carry out its seventh execution of 2010, tonight in Huntsville.  It would be the 454th Texas 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.  To date, there have been 14 executions in the nation in 2010, and 1,202 executions since 1977. Michael Graczyk files this AP report on the scheduled execution of Samuel Bustamante, via the Dallas Morning News. According to TDCJ, nine additional executions are scheduled in Texas during 2010, including four in May.  More execution dates will likely be set by state district courts this year.  Karl Keys at Capital Defense Weekly notes execution dates in Texas and other states...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 27, 2010 (boomark / email).