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Scheduled Execution

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Texas is scheduled to carry out its 17th execution of 2008 tonight in Huntsville; the second in two consecutive nights.  It would be the 422nd in the state since 1982.  Three more executions are scheduled in Texas next week.The Killeen Daily Herald has this report on Denard Manns. Texas has by far the most active death chamber in the United States accounting for more than 37% of all the executions in America. Texas has carried out half of the executions in the America during 2008.  Tonight's execution would be the 33rd execution in the nation this year, the 1,132nd since 1977.Seven Texas executions are already scheduled in 2009.  TDCJ maintains this list of scheduled executions. continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 13, 2008 (boomark / email).