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Wednesday, 20 July 2011

Texas Execution Scheduled

Texas is set to carry out its eighth execution of 2011, tonight in Huntsville. It would be the state's 472nd post-Furman execution since 1982.

In the next post, I'll link to today's news coverage of shooting victim Rais Bhuiyan's attempt to stay his attacker's execution.

Houston's KPFT-FM will host Execution Watch on the web and it's HD radio broadcast signal beginning at 6:00 p.m. (CDT), tonight.

To date, there have been 27 executions in the nation this year; 1,261 post-Furman executions since 1977. Arizona carried out its fourth execution of the year, yesterday.

According to TDCJ, seven additional executions are scheduled in Texas during the months of August and September. It's possible that state district courts will set more 2011 execution dates. Karl Keys at Capital Defense Weekly notes execution dates in Texas and other states.

Wednesday, 20 July 2011 at 10:02 AM in Execution Date, TDCJ, Victims' Issues | Permalink

Tags: capital punishment, death penalty, execution date, Huntsville, lethal injection, Mark Stroman, Rais Bhuiyan, TDCJ, Texas, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, victims' issues

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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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