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Texas Execution

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Texas carried out its 12th execution of the year tonight in Huntsville.  It's the 417th execution in the state since 1982.  The state has by far the most active death chamber in the United States, accounting for more than 37% of all the executions in America.   An AP report on the execution of Joseph Ries is here, via the Houston Chronicle.The U.S. Supreme Court rejected appeals by Ries' lawyer, James Terry Jr., who wanted the court to halt the punishment and examine the case, contending among his arguments that Ries' rights were violated because his earlier appeals were handled by an incompetent attorney. Terry also argued Ries' trial lawyer failed to adequately show jurors how Ries was raised by a drug-addicted and alcoholic mother whose parental rights twice were revoked, and how Ries was abused in some of the dozen foster homes where lived...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 21, 2008 (boomark / email).