Texas is scheduled to carry out its second execution of the year, Wednesday night in Huntsville. It would be the state's 479th post-Furman execution since 1982.
It would be the 240th execution conducted under the administration of Rick Perry. He became Governor of Texas upon the resignation of George W. Bush in December 2000. 152 men and women were executed in five years under Governor Bush's tenure.
The AP report is, "Leader of notorious Texas 7 gang to die Wednesday," by Michael Graczyk, via the Austin American-Statesman.
George Rivas already was saddled with 17 life prison terms when he told a Dallas County jury he deserved death for organizing the largest-ever jailbreak from a Texas prison and then killing a suburban Dallas police officer.
And:
Attorneys say his appeals are exhausted. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has rejected a clemency request. And Rivas acknowledges he's ready to die for fatally shooting Irving police officer Aubrey Hawkins 11 years ago.
To date there have been four executions in the nation this year; a total of 1,281 post-Furman executions since 1977.
Arizona is also scheduled to carry out an execution on Wednesday. The AP post is, "AZ Supreme Court refuses stay of execution," via the Arizona Daily Star.
The Arizona Supreme Court on Monday again refused to stay the scheduled execution of death row inmate Robert Henry Moormann.Lawyers for Moormann, 63, also are asking the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to stop Wednesday’s pending execution.
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Moormann’s attorneys claim he was diagnosed in early childhood as being mentally retarded and therefore the state can’t execute him.
They have asked the federal appeals court in San Francisco for a preliminary injunction over questions regarding Arizona’s lethal-injection protocol.
The Arizona Department of Corrections gave notice that it plans to use a one-drug protocol for the pending execution and not the three-drug system it has used previously.
Related posts are in the execution date and lethal injection indexes.
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