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Scheduled Execution

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Texas is scheduled to carry out its 18th execution of 2008 tonight in Huntsville.  It would be the 423rd in the state since 1982.  It is the last scheduled execution for the state this year.AP has this report on the scheduled execution of Robert Hudson, via the Dallas Morning News. Hudson would be the 18th Texas inmate executed this year in the nation's most active death penalty state. Two other executions scheduled for this week in Texas were stopped by the courts. "Something came over me and I lost control which caused this," Hudson, who declined to speak with reporters as his scheduled execution in Huntsville neared, told police after his arrest. "I loved Edith. ... I am sorry for what has happened and have told the truth about the incident...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 20, 2008 (boomark / email).