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Lethal Injection Round-Up

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There are news reports on the lethal injection today from Texas, Arkansas, and Nevada.  The Fort Worth Star-Telegram carries Mike Graczyk's AP dispatch, "Aug. 14 execution date for Texas 7 member."One of the infamous "Texas 7" convicts who escaped from a state prison more than seven years ago and killed a Dallas-area police officer while on the lam now has an execution date. Michael Rodriguez has been set for lethal injection Aug. 14, Kim Schaefer, a Dallas County assistant district attorney who handles capital cases, said Wednesday. Rodriguez, 45, ordered his appeals dropped and had been asking the courts for nearly two years to give him a death date. A federal judge signed off on Rodriguez's request Sept. 27, two days after the U...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 08, 2008 (boomark / email).