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>The executed: A glance at 10 key Texas executions

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas is approaching its 500th lethal injection since the Supreme Court in 1976 cleared the way to resume executions in the United States. The execution total in Texas is by...

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Texas prepares to execute 500th inmate

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Jim Willett remembers the night of Dec. 6, 1982, when he was assigned to guard a mortuary van that had arrived at the death house at the Huntsville prison. "I remember thinking:...

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Texas set to execute 500th inmate

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Jim Willett remembers the night of Dec. 6, 1982, when he was assigned to guard a mortuary van that had arrived at the death house at the Huntsville prison. "I remember thinking:...

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The executed: A glance at 10 key Texas executions

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Texas is approaching its 500th lethal injection since the Supreme Court in 1976 cleared the way to resume executions in the United States. The execution total in Texas is by far...

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Texas soon to hit grim milestone: 500th execution

HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS — Texas, the nation's most prolific executioner of criminals, is about to put its 500th inmate to death since the mid-1970s. Barring a last-minute reprieve, Kimberly McCarthy, a...

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Inmate 500th executed in three decades

First woman put to death in nearly 3 years Texas has marked a solemn moment in its criminal justice, putting the 500th person to death since the state resumed capital punishment in 1982. Kimberly...

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Kimberly McCarthy Executed: Texas Carries Out 500th Execution

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) -- Texas marked a solemn moment in criminal justice Wednesday evening, executing its 500th inmate since it resumed carrying out capital punishment in 1982. Kimberly McCarthy,...

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Michael Graczyk, AP Reporter, Reflects On Hundreds Of Texas Executions He's...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- About once every three weeks, I watch someone die. Beginning in 1984 when I arrived in Texas for The Associated Press, I've been just a few feet away as one convicted killer after...

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Kimberly McCarthy Set To Become 500th Person Executed In Texas Since 1982

Kimberly McCarthy stabbed her neighbor to death and cut off her finger to pawn her diamond ring. HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- Texas, the nation's busiest death penalty state, is set to mark a solemn moment in...

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A history of capital punishment in Texas

Milestones in capital punishment in Texas: 1819 — George Brown is first person executed in Texas, by hanging. 1863 — Chipita Rodriguez is first woman executed in Texas, by hanging. 1923 — Lee Nathan...

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>A history of capital punishment in Texas

Milestones in capital punishment in Texas: 1819 — George Brown is first person executed in Texas, by hanging. 1863 — Chipita Rodriguez is first woman executed in Texas, by hanging. 1923 — Lee...

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>Texas carries out its 500th execution since 1982

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas marked a solemn moment in criminal justice Wednesday evening, executing its 500th inmate since it resumed carrying out capital punishment in 1982. Kimberly McCarthy, who...

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Texas executes 500th convict since reintroduction of death penalty

The US state of Texas on Wednesday executed its 500th convict since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976. A majority of US citizens support the death penalty, but the number of executions is...

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Ex-warden reflects on overseeing 140 executions, most in Texas history;...

FORNEY, Texas — Charles Thomas O’Reilly supported capital punishment when he oversaw his first Texas execution. And he still supported it after his 100th. In six years as warden of the Huntsville...

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Texas carries out 500th execution since 1982

Texas marked a solemn moment in criminal justice, executing its 500th inmate since it resumed carrying out capital punishment in 1982. The state by far leads the US in its number of executions....

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Texas Executes 500th Convict Kimberly McCarthy

Texas has carried out its 500th execution since it restored capital punishment in 1982. Kimberly McCarthy, 52, was put to death by lethal injection for the murder and robbery of her 71-year-old...

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Texas carries out its 500th execution since 1982

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Texas plans to execute first woman in U.S. in nearly three years

DALLAS (Reuters) - Texas on Wednesday plans to put to death a woman convicted of killing her elderly neighbor, marking the first U.S. execution of a woman in nearly three years. This will also be the...

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Texas plans execution of first woman in U.S. in three years

DALLAS (Reuters) - Texas on Wednesday plans to put to death a woman convicted of killing her elderly neighbor, marking the first U.S. execution of a woman in nearly three years. This will also be the...

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Texas executes 500th inmate since death penalty reinstated

WASHINGTON : The US state of Texas on Wednesday executed its 500th convict since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, a record in a country where capital punishment is in decline elsewhere....

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