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Texas Execution - Mississippi Execution; More Set for Thursday

By Steve Hall

Texas carried out its 10th execution of the year, tonight in Huntsville.  It was the state's 457th 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.  Michael Graczyk writes, "Texas prisoner executed for killing cellmate," for the AP.Condemned Texas inmate Rogelio Cannady was executed Wednesday evening for killing his cellmate while already serving two life sentences for a double murder.Cannady, 37, from Harlingen, didn't deny fatally beating 55-year-old Leovigildo Bonal with a belt and padlock in October 1993, but he insisted the attack at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice McConnell Unit in Beeville was self defense from Bonal's sexual advances...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 19, 2010 (boomark / email).