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Texas Execution

By Steve Hall

Texas is scheduled to carry out its 17th execution of the year, tonight in Huntsville.  It would be the state's 464th execution since 1982; the 225th in 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 post-Furman executions.  The AP report, "Execution set for tonight in slayings of Paris couple," via the Houston Chronicle. Larry Wooten is set for execution in the Texas death chamber in Huntsville Thursday evening for the 1996 murders of 80-year-old Grady Alexander and his 86-year-old wife, Bessie in the northeast Texas town of Paris. To date, there have been 42 executions in the nation in 2010, and 1,230 executions since 1977...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 21, 2010 (boomark / email).