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Texas kills

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Derrick Lamone Johnson was killed by Texas Thursday night.  The AP notes: A Texas man was executed Thursday for the rape and slaying of a woman abducted while she was trying to make a call at a pay phone 10 years ago. Derrick Lamone Johnson, 28, was the 14th Texas prisoner executed this year in the nation’s most active death penalty state. He was pronounced dead at 6:23 p.m. His victim, LaTausha Curry, 25, of Dallas, was robbed of less than $10, driven away in her car, raped, beaten with a two-by-four and suffocated with her own blouse. Authorities determined the 1999 slaying was part of a two-week crime spree involving Johnson and a companion that left numerous women robbed or raped from Dallas to south of Waco, some 100 miles away. Johnson’s lawyers appealed to the U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on April 30, 2009 (boomark / email).