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Scheduled Execution

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Texas is scheduled to execute Joseph Ries tonight in Huntsville.  It would be the state's 12th execution this year, the 417th Texas execution since 1982.  It would be the third execution this month, with an additional three executions scheduled for October.  Six more executions are scheduled in Huntsville during the month of November.  The state has the most active death chamber in the United States, by far, accounting for more than 36% of all the executions in America. Texas accounts for 44% of the 27 executions in America this year.  Virginia has carried out four executions during 2008.  It is the second leading state in the number of executions, with 102 since 1982. An AP report, "Northeast Texas man set to die in burglary-murder," is via the Houston Chronicle...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 21, 2008 (boomark / email).