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Texas Execution

By Steve Hall

Texas carried out its 18th execution of 2009, this evening in Huntsville.  It was the state's 441st execution since 1982.  Texas has far and away the most active death chamber in America, accounting for more than 37% of the nation's post-Furman executions.  To date, there have been 39 executions in the nation this year; 1,175 since 1977. Mike Tolson reports, "Killer in '95 Houston ambush executed," for the Houston Chronicle. Prosecutors said the three were murdered because of a drug debt owed by Enrique Andrade Mosquera. Rather than pay it, he arranged a meeting and hired Coleman and a third man, Derrick Graham, as enforcers. The two groups met about 2 a.m. on a quiet residential street in the Acres Homes neighborhood of Houston...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 23, 2009 (boomark / email).