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Issue Date:  February 2, 2007

NCR last reported the names of the people executed in the United States in May. Since then, 38 more people have been put to death.

Texas executed 18 men: Jermaine Herron, 27, May 17; Jesus Aguilar, 42, May 24; Timothy Titsworth, 34, June 6; Lamont Reese, 28, June 20; Angel Maturino Resendiz, 46, June 27; Derrick O’Brien, 31, July 11; Mauriceo Brown, 31, July 19; Robert Anderson, 40, July 20; William Wyatt Jr., 41, Aug. 3; Richard Hinojosa, 45, Aug. 17; Justin Chaz Fuller, 27, Aug. 24; Derrick Frazier , 29, Aug. 31; Farley Matchett, 43, Sept. 12; Gregory Summers, 48, Oct. 25; Donell Jackson, 33, Nov. 1; Willie Shannon, 33, Nov. 8; Carlos Granados, 36, Jan. 10; and Jonathan Moore, 33, Jan. 17.

Florida executed four men: Angel Diaz, 55, Dec. 13; Arthur Rutherford, 57, Oct. 18; Danny Rolling, 52, Oct. 25; and Clarence Hill, 48, Sept. 20.

Oklahoma executed four men: Eric Allen Patton, 49, Aug. 29; James Malicoat, 31, Aug. 31; John Boltz, 74, June 1; and Corey Hamilton, 38, Jan. 9.

Ohio executed three men: Darrell Ferguson, 28, Aug. 8; Rocky Barton, 49, July 12; and Jeffrey Lundgren, 56, Oct. 24.

Virginia executed three men: Brandon Hedrick, 27, July 20; Michael Lenz, 42, July 27; and John Yancey Schmitt, 33, Nov. 9.

Six states executed one man each: Alabama executed Larry Hutcherson, 37, Oct. 26. Mississippi executed Bobby Glen Wilcher, 43, Oct. 18. Montana executed David Dawson, 49, Aug. 11. North Carolina executed Samuel Flippen, 37, Aug. 18. South Carolina executed William Downs, 39, July 14. Tennessee executed Sedley Alley, 51, June 28.

Since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, 1,060 prisoners have been executed in the United States.

We ask prayers for the victims of the crimes that may have been committed by those listed here, for those executed and for those participating in the execution done in our names.

Learn more about the death penalty and organizations working to abolish it at the Death Penalty Information Center on the Web at www.deathpenaltyinfo.org.

-- Complied by NCR staff

National Catholic Reporter, February 2, 2007

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