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.
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All I have to say is... Gig 'Em!
"How did he vote?"
twice for Kerry-he didnt like Bush's stand on capital punishment...
Thanks....that was the first belly laugh I had all day.
If your statement were not a joke it would be the first rational, coherent explanation of a Kerry vote I would have heard.
Caught in the exit poles?
Hi doughnut!!
This is Texas we're talking about. Felons can't vote.
If he'd killed Fields in Massachusetts he'd not only be able to vote, he'd still be able to breathe.
Maybe that's part of why the Texas guy has won and the Mass. guy has not.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
It's never too late. To vote Democrat.
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