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Houston Sends Someone to Death Row for First Time Since 2007

By "Persian Cowboy"

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Harris County (Houston) today sent someone to death row for first time in two years. Death sentences have been declining for more than a decade across the country, but now there is one more. The last time Harris County sent someone to death row was November 2007. According to a report from the Death Penalty Information Center (PDF), in 1994, a total of 328 people were sentenced to death in the U.S., but in 2009 only 106 people were sentenced to death in the U.S. In Texas, only 9 people were sentenced to death in 2009. During the 1990s, Texas averaged 34 death sentences every year. Video from KTRK in Houston: From the Houston Chronicle:A Harris County jury has sentenced to death a man convicted of killing a Houston police officer...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on April 14, 2010 (boomark / email).

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