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The Dallas Morning News reports, "Irving killer whose execution was blocked loses appeal."The Supreme Court cleared the way Monday for Texas to set a new execution date for Carlton Turner Jr., who was granted a last-minute reprieve by the justices last year. Mr. Turner is facing the death penalty for killing his parents in their Irving home in 1998. The court blocked his execution last fall while it considered a challenge to Kentucky's lethal injection procedures. The justices last week said those procedures are not unconstitutionally cruel, a decision that should end a nationwide hiatus of executions.AP has, "Supreme Court Lifts Stays of Execution for Three Death-Row Inmates," via Law.com. Several other death row inmates also lost their appeals Monday at the Supreme Court, but they had not been facing imminent execution...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 22, 2008 (boomark / email).