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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Texas carried out its first execution of 2008, tonight in Huntsville. It's the first execution in the nation's most active execution chamber since September 25, 2007, the controversial execution of Michael Richard on the day the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Baze v. Rees.

An AP report on the execution of Karl Chamberlain is here, via the San Antonio Express-News.

It is the sixth execution in America in 2008, the 1,105th since 1977. Texas has carried out 406 of those executions during that period, more than 36% of all the executions in the nation. According to TDCJ, 12 additional executions are scheduled this year and more are expected to be ordered.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at 08:48 PM in Execution | Permalink

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The StandDown Texas Project

The StandDown Texas Project was organized in 2000 to advocate a moratorium on executions and a state-sponsored review of Texas' application of the death penalty. To stand down is to go off duty temporarily, especially to review safety procedures.

Steve Hall

Project Director Steve Hall was chief of staff to the Attorney General of Texas from 1983-1991; he was an administrator of the Texas Resource Center from 1993-1995. He has worked for the U.S. Congress and several Texas legislators. Hall is a former journalist.

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