diff --git a/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/extractor/ExtractorHTML.java b/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/extractor/ExtractorHTML.java
index eaf226cb..ef849642 100644
--- a/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/extractor/ExtractorHTML.java
+++ b/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/extractor/ExtractorHTML.java
@@ -931,7 +931,6 @@ public class ExtractorHTML extends ContentExtractor implements InitializingBean
         String name = null;
         String httpEquiv = null;
         String content = null;
-        String property = null;
         while (attr.find()) {
             int valueGroup =
                 (attr.start(14) > -1) ? 14 : (attr.start(15) > -1) ? 15 : 16;