Yet Another Execution Scheduled in Texas

Texas is set to draw closer Wednesday to the ignoble distinction of having put to death 500 people in the modern era of the death penalty. The Lone Star State plans to kill Jefferey Williams, whose execution would be No. 498. Unless Williams receives a stay, Execution Watch will broadcast live coverage and commentary on the state killing.

TEXAS PLANS TO EXECUTE: JEFFEREY D. WILLIAMS, condemned in the 1999 shooting death of a plainclothes Houston police officer who was trying to arrest him for driving a stolen Lexus. Williams claimed he did not know the man was an officer, assumed he was being attacked, and shot the man in self defense. Williams’ execution would be the 498th in Texas in the modern death-penalty era..