Posted on 09/03/2007 3:44:13 PM PDT by Dubya
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A drifter set to die this week for killing an Amarillo woman is the first of five convicted killers scheduled for lethal injection this month in the nation's busiest capital punishment state.
Tony Roach, 30, from Greenville, S.C., faces execution Wednesday for strangling 37-year-old Ronnie Dawn Hewitt after breaking in her apartment nine years ago. His punishment would bring to 24 the number of executions in Texas this year, equaling the total for all of last year.
Four men were executed last month, including two last week. A third set to die last week, Kenneth Foster, received a commutation from Gov. Rick Perry. Foster's supporters and death penalty opponents waged an intense campaign pointing out Foster was not the triggerman in the fatal shooting case in San Antonio that resulted in his death sentence. Perry's unusual commutation sent Foster to a life prison term.
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Oh dear, the EU is not going to like this.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Five in a month is “busy”?
Must be on the right track then!
"If you kill someone, we will kill you back!"
"Most states are trying to back away from the death penalty. In MY state (TX), we're putting in an express lane."
LOL! Without a doubt.
Oh sure, some people have all the fun.
The EU has already whined and Governor Perry has told them to mind their own business!! We’ll do it our way!!
Just one of the joys of being a TEXAN.
On the other hand............
On September 24, 1830, Stephen G. Simmons, a fifty-year-old tavern keeper and farmer, was hanged in Detroit for murdering his wife, Levana Simmons, in a drunken, jealous rage. Michigan executed only two people during the fifty-year period, from 1796 to 1846, when the death penalty was legal within its boundaries. Simmons was the second and last person to be executed under Michigan law.
So much for Michigan....
Next month Ron will start hosting the “Texas Execution of the Week” (program) live from Austin. Check your local listing for channel listing and airtime.
By the way, every week Mr. White will have a special report called “The Express Lane,” where a murder has been witnessed by more than three witnesses. Therefore, the murderer in question will go to the front of the line for his execution—the following week.
How is this possible? I thought the Governor of Texas did not have the Constitutional power to delay executions by more than 60 days.
-ccm
This type commutation requires the endorsement of the parole board, so perhaps the type stay you’re talking about is something he can do autonomously.
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