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Texas Execution

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Texas carried out its 15th execution of 2009, tonight in Huntsville.  It was the state's 438th execution since 1982, and the 199th execution under the administration of Governor Rick Perry.  Texas has far and away the most active death chamber in America, accounting for more than 37% of the nation's executions.  AP has this report on the execution of  Michael Riley, via the Houston Chronicle.An East Texas man apologized repeatedly Tuesday as he was executed for fatally stabbing a convenience store clerk during a robbery more than two decades ago."I know I hurt you very bad," Michael Lynn Riley said to his victim's relatives, including her two daughters and husband...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 19, 2009 (boomark / email).