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Texas Set to Resume Executions This Week

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That's the title of an Texas AP dispatch by Mike Graczyk, via the San Antonio Express-News.  LINKThe nation's busiest death chamber reopens this week after a nearly 9-month hiatus with the scheduled lethal injection of a former part-time car-wash worker for killing a suburban Houston woman and her young son 17 years ago. The execution Tuesday of Derrick Sonnier, 40, would make him the fourth prisoner put to death in the nation since the U.S. Supreme Court in April upheld lethal injection as a proper method of capital punishment but the first in Texas since last Sept. 25. That's when convicted killer Michael Richard was executed in Huntsville the same day the high court decided to consider a challenge from two condemned inmates in Kentucky who contended lethal injection was unconstitutionally cruel...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 02, 2008 (boomark / email).