Texas Set To Execute Inmate Who Was Accomplice, Not Gunman Himself

New York Times:

Kenneth Foster has a date on Thursday with the executioner's needle. Not for killing anyone himself, but for what he was doing -- and might have been thinking -- the night in 1996 when he was 19 and a sidekick gunned down a San Antonio law student.

Ensnared in a Texas law that makes accomplices subject to the death penalty, Mr. Foster, 30, is to become the third death row inmate this week, and the 403rd since capital punishment resumed in Texas in 1982, to give his life for a life taken.

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Comments

[getoffmedz]

10:00 PM on 08/29/2007

In Texas, they kill you back even if you aren't the murderer.

Guilt by association. It's the law in Texas.