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BREIF: Texas is set to reach its 300th execution this Wednesday. Delma Banks is scheduled to die for the murder of a Texarkana man. Banks was a 21-year-old black man when he was convicted and sentenced to death by an all-white jury in 1980. The death penalty was re-instituted in Texas in 1974. The state carried out its first execution in 1982. Since arriving on Texas death row, Banks has seen every one of the three hundred men and women before him go to meet their death at the hands of the state. In 2003, Texas is set to break its 2000 record of 40 executions in a year. Governor Rick Perry supports the death penalty. Since he became governor in December 2000, 59 convicts have been executed. During George W. Bush's six years as governor, 152 inmates were put to death. Renee Feltz, KPFT News, Houston. E-mail Renee Feltz at Chickpea_@ziplip.com . This story was broadcast on March 7, 2003.