The 1st execution of 2006, and the 1,005th since executions resumed in 1976, occurred early this morning in California by lethal injection. The prisoner wasn’t a very sympathetic character having orchestrated a murder for hire in which three innocent people were killed.
A last minute appeal based upon the rationale that executing a 76 year old man who was blind and almost deaf was cruel and unusual punishment was rejected. Ironically the prisoner had been saved from a heart attack in September so he could keep his date with the executioner.
The next execution is scheduled in Texas in two days. Texas already has 13 executions scheduled in the 1st half of 2006.
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