[Paleo Conservative]

Almost 13 years passed between Charlie Brooks, execution No. 1 and Harold Lane, No. 100, in 1995. It took more than four years for Texas to get to No. 200, Earl Heiselbetz, in January 2000.

Anyone want to make bets about how long it will take Texas to reach 400?

[TADSLOS]

Over 297 served....Next!

[bfree]

Hopefully, 500 is in reach this year!!!!!

[arly]

I will keep my fingers crossed for you Delma... Hope you get what you so richly deserve on Wed!...

[Slyfox]

"I hate it. I hate the death penalty," Cook said...condemned for the robbery and shooting death of a fisherman almost 10 years ago.

Well, if he hates the death penalty so much, then why did he inflict the death penalty on that fisherman?

[Search4Truth]

With the advances in forensic science and the certainty that provides, executions could be expedited.

Justice delayed, is justice denied.

[isthisnickcool]

Prayers for the victims and their families.

[GalvestonBeachcomber]

...when Dallas County prosecutors eliminated potential jurors who were black and stacked the panel with death-penalty supporters, almost all of them white.

Jurors must be qualified on their willingness to follow the law in capital cases. That is not necessarily stacking.

[philetus]

Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan issued a blanket commutation of sentences for the nearly 170 inmates on Illinois' death row. Ryan was troubled that the number of men executed by Illinois since 1977 was exceeded by the number of condemned prisoners who were exonerated."

I wonder if any of these 170 have murdered another inmate since.

[MeekOneGOP]

Anyone want to make bets about how long it will take Texas to reach 400?

Two-and-a-half to three years, approximately . . .

Here is a picture of him from the Dallas Morning News March 7th and his TDCJ file:

AP
Delma Banks

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Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice

[Lion Den Dan]

297 vermin who are not recidivistic.

[alisasny]

Only 300? With all the hoopla and coverage of Texas death row in 2000 you would think millions were executed....

Shame that our society gives so much attention to a few hundred cretins.....