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As execution dates resume, how many on Texas death row are likely innocent?

By Gritsforbreakfast

After a brief moratorium in 1922 when Texas shifted executions from the hangings at county jails to electrocution at the state prison in Huntsville, five men were executed on the first day capital punishment was reinstated. Texas won't reach that clip anytime soon, but the execution dates are being set so rapidly right now TDCJ hasn't had time yet to update its website.CrimProf blog cites a New York Times article reporting that five Texans have received execution dates between June 3 (Derrick Sonnier) and August 20 (Jose Medellin). Meanwhile, via Doc Berman I saw this AP story declaring that the "Mexican-born Texas prisoner whose death sentence set off an international dispute and a U.S. Supreme Court rebuke of the White House received an execution date Monday...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 05, 2008 (boomark / email).