Texas execution set, sentiment against death penalty grows
Vol. 85/No. 33 - September 6, 2021![Protest in Texas against death penalty and execution of Rodney Reed in 2019. Reed, who has been on death row more than 23 years, and John Ramirez, who is scheduled to be executed Sept. 8, are two of the 198 prisoners on Texas death row, and of some 2,550 across the country.](https://themilitant.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Texas_exec_8533-300x206.jpg)
John Henry Ramirez is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville Sept. 8, the third execution there this year. Ramirez filed a federal suit Aug. 10 after prison officials denied his request to…