Lethal Injection in Texas: A Three-fer Week Scheduled (Axis of Logic)

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By Editor
Jan 24, 2009, 18:35

... On Tuesday, Larry Swearingen is scheduled to be executed for a crime that probably took place while he was in jail ...

On Wednesday, Virgil Martinez is scheduled to be killed for shooting to death an ex-girlfriend, her friend, and two children ... Martinez was arrested at a mental hospital where he had admitted himself for hearing voices ordering him to kill ...

On Thursday, Ricardo Ortiz is scheduled to be killed by lethal injection because he .... and two other cellmates cooked up three doses of heroin in an El Paso cell and .. injected all three .. into the victim ... to prevent <him> "from testifying against him" about some bank robberies. So here is what Texas officials tell us: they held a prisoner in an El Paso cell with someone who could testify against him. They allowed three doses of heroin into the cell, didn't smell it while it was cooking, and didn't notice a thing until the next cell count revealed a dead prisoner ...

http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_29420.shtml

[depakid]

1. Texas never fails to impress.

Hard to envision a place where George W. Bush would Feel more at home- or belongs (other than the Hague).

[Demeter]

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