Lethal injection ends Dominique Green's life: victim's family pleads for clemency but officials turn deaf ears.(Nation)

Dominique Green, the death row inmate who wrote the essay "More than just a rosary" in the Oct. 15 issue of NCR, was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, Oct. 26.

Green and his supporters experienced an emotional roller coaster as he was granted a reprieve hours before the scheduled execution and then the reprieve was overturned. The execution went forward despite an 11th-hour appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Green is the 18th Texas inmate put to death this year and the fifth in October. Another six are to die before the end of the year.

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