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Texas (and Ohio) helps keeps US execution pace rapid in 2010

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this AP report, Texas yesterday executed George Jones "for the fatal shooting of a Dallas man during a carjacking 17 years ago."  This execution was "the 12th this year in the nation's busiest death penalty state" and "two more executions are scheduled for Texas this month."  In addition, as regular readers know and as this DPIC page details, Ohio is also helping to make sure the US execution rate in 2010 is steady by conducting an execution every month.  And, as this DPIC page of scheduled executions details, four other states besides Texas and Ohio also have executions scheduled for June.  If most of these scheduled executions are carried out, there will have been more than 30 executions in the first half of 2010, and the US will be on pace for the more executions in 2010 than the nation has had in nearly a decade...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 03, 2010 (boomark / email).