Texas and Florida Carry Out Back-to-Back Executions, Controversy and Calls for Abolishment Increase
AUSTIN, Texas — Two separate executions took place on Thursday night in the states of Florida and Texas, inciting continued debate over the application of the death penalty in the U.S. This year, there have been five executions nationwide, a statistic that aligns with ongoing dialogues about the ethics and effectiveness of capital punishment. In Texas, 46-year-old Richard Lee Tabler was put to death for the 2004 killings of Mohamed-Amine Rahmouni and Haitham Zayed, foreign …