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22 Year Old Man Texas Man Sentenced To Death Row

Texas’ death row is getting its first inmate of 2015, ending a 10-month hiatus in death sentences imposed by juries in the nation’s most active capital punishment state.

A Brazos County jury decided after seven hours of deliberation Wednesday that 22-year-old Gabriel Hall should be executed for an attack that left a man dead and his wife injured at the couple’s home in College Station, about 100 miles northwest of Houston.

The lull in death sentences in Texas is similar to what other capital punishment states have experienced in recent years. The Texas hiatus is believed to be the longest the state has seen since the U.S. Supreme Court, ruling in a Georgia case in 1972, effectively halted executions.

Statistics kept by the Death Penalty Information Center show 73 people nationwide were sentenced to die last year. In 1996, the nation’s death rows swelled by 315 inmates.

Georgia Sets New Execution Date For Only Woman On Death Row

Via The Associated Press– The Georgia Department of Corrections has set a new execution date for the only woman on the state’s death row.

The department said in a statement Monday that Commissioner Homer Bryson has set Kelly Renee Gissendaner’s execution for Sept. 29 at the state prison in Jackson.
Gissendaner would be the first woman to be executed in the state in seven decades.

Gissendaner was convicted of murder in the February 1997 slaying of her husband. Prosecutors say she conspired with her lover, who stabbed Douglas Gissendaner to death.

Gissendaner was previously scheduled for execution in February, but that was delayed because of a threat of winter weather. Her execution was reset for March 2, but corrections officials postponed that execution “out of an abundance of caution” because the execution drug appeared “cloudy.”

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