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Texas Execution Stayed

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The Houston Chronicle website reports, "Appeals court stays execution for Harris County killer."The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has granted a stay of execution for death row inmate Derrick Sonnier. No further information on the reason for the stay was immediately available. Sonnier was scheduled for execution this evening, the first condemned killer scheduled to be put to death in the state in about nine months. He  was sentenced to die for the 1991 stabbing deaths of an Humble woman and her young son. Michael Richard, 48, the most recent Texas killer to be executed, was put to death Sept. 25 ? the same day the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider a Kentucky challenge of the constitutionality of lethal injection. Texas, and other states across the country that use the same three-drug procedure, postponed all executions to await the high court's ruling...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 03, 2008 (boomark / email).