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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.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2004electionbias; deathpenalty; electionnightbias; godblesstexas; hopehevoted1st; mediabias; texas
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To: COEXERJ145
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posted on
11/02/2004 6:25:07 PM PST
by
Question Liberal Authority
(How do you ask a goose to be the last goose to die for the Kerry campaign?)
To: COEXERJ145
As Ernie Banks would say, "Let's fry two!"
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posted on
11/02/2004 6:25:14 PM PST
by
Sociopathocracy
(John Kerry - Traitor, Wind Surfer, Gigolo - Your 15 Minutes Are Up!)
To: COEXERJ145
i wonder if he got his vote in?
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posted on
11/02/2004 6:25:20 PM PST
by
marvlus
To: COEXERJ145
From the article, it looks like it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
To: COEXERJ145
To: COEXERJ145
To: COEXERJ145
Taking care of business ... it's allright ... taking care of business ... and working overtime ... work out
To: COEXERJ145
This is gonna get ugly. :-)
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posted on
11/02/2004 6:25:56 PM PST
by
day10
(Rules cannot substitute for character.)
To: COEXERJ145
The same thing happened on this night in 1984... Remember the Reagan Landslide? This is an Omen YEE Haw ;> (j/k)?
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posted on
11/02/2004 6:26:08 PM PST
by
Capn TrVth
(Yah! A little over the top, but who has more fun? ;>)
To: Question Liberal Authority
As with terrorists, we don't make deals.
To: COEXERJ145
Why is it that I hear a toilet flush?
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posted on
11/02/2004 6:26:14 PM PST
by
duckman
(I refuse to use a tag line...I mean it.)
To: COEXERJ145
A democrat absentee voter.
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posted on
11/02/2004 6:26:15 PM PST
by
bleach
To: getbillnow
talk about a twofer? An election and a hangin!
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posted on
11/02/2004 6:26:15 PM PST
by
Braak
(The US Military, the real arms inspectors!)
To: COEXERJ145
I wonder if the pinko leftists had time to have a vigil outside the prison, or were they out hassling voters at polling places.
To: COEXERJ145
Will his absentee ballot from South Dakota still count, or is he not a Native American, kemo sabie?
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posted on
11/02/2004 6:26:18 PM PST
by
scottybk
(Asking Americans to vote for Kerry on defense is like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders.)
To: COEXERJ145
Not as if they needed his vote anyhow.
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posted on
11/02/2004 6:26:27 PM PST
by
HungarianGypsy
(Intimidate a 'Rat today: Roll your eyes and make a funny face.)
To: COEXERJ145
Texas Executes Man on Election Night.....Texas Democrats retrieve body, drive him to the polls as part of their "get out the vote" drive.
To: COEXERJ145
That's cruel to execute him before he knows the results of the election. (/sarcasm)
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posted on
11/02/2004 6:26:47 PM PST
by
Ciexyz
(Feeling so much calmer now I've cancelled my cable TV. Don't miss the Demopuke spin on cable news.)
To: I got the rope
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posted on
11/02/2004 6:26:51 PM PST
by
texson66
("Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing." - Lord Moulton)
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