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2016-03-23 Thread Rick Halperin
March 23 TEXAS: With support of US Supreme Court, Texas authorities execute mentally ill man Adam Kelly Ward, a severely mentally ill Texas man sentenced to death for the 2005 murder of 44-year-old Michael Walker, was executed Tuesday evening by lethal injection. Ward, 33, was the 9th

[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----TEXAS, N.Y., PENN., VA., N.C.

2013-05-14 Thread Rick Halperin
May 14 TEXASimpending execution Texas to execute man for Houston officer's slaying When Houston police arrested Jeffrey Demond Williams for gunning down a plainclothes officer working an auto theft assignment, the slain officer's handcuffs dangled from one of Williams' wrists.