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  • Texas Executes Man on Election Night

    11/02/2004 6:24:10 PM PST · by COEXERJ145 · 85 replies · 1,016+ views
    Reuters.com ^ | November 2, 2004 | Reuters
    HOUSTON (Reuters) - In the midst of a key national election on Tuesday, Texas, the leading death penalty state, took time out to execute a man for a 1990 murder. Lorenzo Morris, 52, received a lethal injection shortly after 6 p.m. in the state's 19th execution this year. He was the 332nd person put to death in Texas since the state resumed capital punishment in 1982. Morris was condemned for killing Jesse Fields, 70, on Aug. 5, 1990 by slashing his throat and beating him with a hammer after breaking into his Houston home and demanding money. Morris had no...