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Texas Executes Man on Election Night
Reuters.com ^
| November 2, 2004
| Reuters
Posted on 11/02/2004 6:24:10 PM PST by COEXERJ145
HOUSTON (Reuters) - In the midst of a key national election on Tuesday, Texas, the leading death penalty state, took time out to execute a man for a 1990 murder. Lorenzo Morris, 52, received a lethal injection shortly after 6 p.m. in the state's 19th execution this year.
He was the 332nd person put to death in Texas since the state resumed capital punishment in 1982.
Morris was condemned for killing Jesse Fields, 70, on Aug. 5, 1990 by slashing his throat and beating him with a hammer after breaking into his Houston home and demanding money.
Morris had no final statement as he lay strapped to a gurney in the Texas death chamber at a state prison in Huntsville.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2004electionbias; deathpenalty; electionnightbias; godblesstexas; hopehevoted1st; mediabias; texas
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To: GreenHornet
barnet frank drove him to the polls then drove him HOME hahahahaha
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posted on
11/02/2004 6:35:09 PM PST
by
al baby
(she stuned my little beeber)
To: COEXERJ145
He did the crime now he does the time..... unto eternity.
62
posted on
11/02/2004 6:35:10 PM PST
by
dennisw
(Gd - against Amelek for all generations.)
To: Larry381
"Will his vote for Kerry Count?"
Not until next year.
To: COEXERJ145
Man, I love my state.
P.S. The rest of y'all stop moving here! heh heh
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posted on
11/02/2004 6:35:27 PM PST
by
manic4organic
(Kerry/Edwards - Both ends of the horse)
To: COEXERJ145
Ya think that's extraordinary, the NBA is playing, Houston Rockets, what were the schedule makers thinking?
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posted on
11/02/2004 6:35:49 PM PST
by
roadrunner96
(Don't sleep at dawn!)
To: COEXERJ145
Hey - business is business...
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posted on
11/02/2004 6:35:55 PM PST
by
ErnBatavia
(Democrats: appear in September, leavin' November 3 - worse than a 1-night stand...)
To: COEXERJ145
We don't let felons vote in Texas. Unless they are dead and buried in one of the many South and East Texas Democratic stronghold counties. Then they vote early and often.
To: T Wayne
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posted on
11/02/2004 6:37:00 PM PST
by
T Wayne
(I've done more than my fair share of paving!!!)
To: COEXERJ145
This is a heinous crime, let the wheels of justice roll!
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posted on
11/02/2004 6:37:04 PM PST
by
roadrunner96
(Don't sleep at dawn!)
To: COEXERJ145
good for TX. I might move there some day and bring all my cool stuff
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posted on
11/02/2004 6:37:48 PM PST
by
ezo4
To: COEXERJ145
He made his last choice on Aug. 5, 1990.
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posted on
11/02/2004 6:39:52 PM PST
by
shiva
To: Question Liberal Authority
How did he vote? Prison spokeswoman Michelle Lyons said Morris did not vote in Tuesday's presidential election because Texas law forbids jailed felons from casting a ballot.
Isn't Texas law great?
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posted on
11/02/2004 6:40:27 PM PST
by
David M. Brooks
(Twenty Minutes Into The Future)
To: COEXERJ145
Mass. doesn't have the death penalty, but Boston-based talk host Howie Carr (pro-DP) always mentions when the Lone Star State executes someone and then he plays a snippet of the country song (Little Texas, I think),
"God Bless Texas"
To: COEXERJ145
Us Texan know how to throw a party.
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posted on
11/02/2004 6:41:49 PM PST
by
solo gringo
(Don't be a girlie man vote Bush/Cheney in/04)
To: COEXERJ145
Reuters writers are drugged children.
To: COEXERJ145
That's just the Aggies who think that Death Row is in College Station....... ;>)
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posted on
11/02/2004 6:46:47 PM PST
by
Ready4Freddy
(Carpe Sharpei !)
To: COEXERJ145
Seems like a swift, but kinda harsh, penalty for 'Rat election fraud.
Oh, well. I suppose he'll still vote straight 'Rat later on this evening, after he's been assigned his bunk in Hell.
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posted on
11/02/2004 6:48:31 PM PST
by
Hank Rearden
(Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
To: COEXERJ145
To: Ready4Freddy
That's just the Aggies who think that Death Row is in College Station....... Ha Ha Ha
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posted on
11/02/2004 6:48:39 PM PST
by
COEXERJ145
(The price of freedom is eternal vigilance)
To: RushLake
Well, you could just read the article.... -
Morris had no final statement as he lay strapped to a gurney...
Well, I just want to know if he gave the almost obligatory apology ....
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posted on
11/02/2004 6:48:52 PM PST
by
Ready4Freddy
(Carpe Sharpei !)
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