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Texas Execution

By Steve Hall

Texas carried out its first execution of 2011, tonight in Huntsville.  It was the state's 465th execution since 1983; the 226th execution under the administration of Governor Rick Perry. Michael Graczyk files, "2nd Texas man executed for torture-slaying," for the AP on Michael Anthony Hall's execution.  It's via the Austin American-Statesman. A North Texas man convicted in the 1998 torture-slaying of a 19-year-old mentally challenged woman apologized profusely Tuesday just minutes before he was executed, exactly 13 years after the murder. Michael Wayne Hall, 31, received lethal injection less than an hour after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to stop his punishment for the abduction and murder of Amy Robinson...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 15, 2011 (boomark / email).