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Article: Just another night on Texas' death row.
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- February 4, 2000
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Just before 6 p.m. Friday, Jan. 21, Ken and Lois Robison stood less than a block from the death house where their son, Larry, 42, was just minutes away from being executed. The crowd of 100 or so persons gathered around them was larger than that which had turned out for David Hick's execution the night before or Spencer Goodman's on Jan. 18 or Earl Heiselbetz's on Jan. 12.
The new century has accelerated the rate of state killings in Texas, already the country's death penalty capital, where death row holds 460 men and nine women awaiting the executioner's needle. Since the 1976 Supreme Court's reinstatement of the death penalty, 602 prisoners have been poisoned, ...