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Execution Watch: Peter Cantu, Aug. 17

By "Persian Cowboy"

Peter Cantu By Elizabeth SteinProducer, Execution WatchTexas plans to kill Peter Cantu Tuesday by lethal injection -- the 16th execution this year in the nation's busiest death chamber. Execution Watch will provide live reports from outside the building, along with a discussion of the issues and an interview with the author of Capital Punishment on Trial, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Oshinsky.  RADIO PROGRAM PREVIEWEXECUTION WATCHAug. 17, 2010, Tues., 6-7 pm Central TimeListen on KPFT's HD2 channel, 90.1 FM Houston, or ?Go to www.executionwatch. org at 6 p.m. CT, click on ?Listen.?SCHEDULED TO BE EXECUTED   PETER CANTU, 35, was one of several teens convicted of raping and killing two Houston girls in 1993. Cantu and four companions received death sentences...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on August 16, 2010 (boomark / email).