TX: Four Tarrant inmates are scheduled to die by April

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TX: Four Tarrant inmates are scheduled to die by April
Sun Jan 11, 2009 9:44AM
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Posted on Sun, Jan. 11, 2009
Four Tarrant inmates are scheduled to die by April

BY ALEX BRANCH
abranch@star-telegram.com
A Fort Worth man who murdered three people in a 1995 robbery is
scheduled for execution Wednesday, the first of four Tarrant County
men set to die in the next three months.

Curtis Moore would be the first man executed in the United States
this year.

Overall, 14 men are scheduled to die in Texas by April 7, a pace that
one death penalty opposition group attributes moratorium on
executions from October 2007 to April 2008 while the U.S. Supreme
Court considered whether lethal injection is unconstitutionally
cruel. The court found that it is not.

"It does seem like an unusually high number," said Kristin Houle,
executive director of the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death
Penalty. "It is most likely the result of the backlog of cases during
the moratorium."

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