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Texas green lights lethal injection?

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Monday appears to have cleared the way for executions to resume starting Wednesday. In a ruling late Monday, the state’s highest criminal court refused to stop the scheduled execution of Karl Eugene Chamberlain. AP has more. [Unfortunately we are not always free to report on what we know. As many readers know, that which is known through confidential sources, and we've known about this story well before it appeared here, aren't repreated here until a "public" source is available. My apologies for any delay.] The opinions are below the jump THE FOLLOWING ORDERS ARE ENTERED AND OPINIONS HANDED DOWN: ALBA, EX PARTE JOHN AVALOS FROM COLLIN COUNTY, DISMISSED-OPINION JUDGE MEYERS [HTML] [PDF] CONCURRING OPINION JUDGE COCHRAN [HTML] [PDF] (JUDGE WOMACK JOINED ) DISSENTING OPINION JUDGE PRICE [HTML] [PDF] DISSENTING OPINION JUDGE JOHNSON [HTML] [PDF] (JUDGE HOLCOMB JOINED ) PUBLISHED CHI, EX PARTE HELIBERTO FROM TARRANT COUNTY, DISMISSED-OPINION JUDGE HERVEY [HTML] [PDF] CONCURRING OPINION JUDGE COCHRAN [HTML] [PDF] (JUDGE WOMACK JOINED ) DISSENTING OPINION JUDGE PRICE [HTML] [PDF] DISSENTING OPINION JUDGE JOHNSON [HTML] [PDF] (JUDGE HOLCOMB JOINED ) PUBLISHED CHI, EX PARTE HELIBERTO FROM TARRANT COUNTY, PROHIBITION RELIEF DENIED-OPINION JUDGE HERVEY [HTML] [PDF] CONCURRING OPINION JUDGE COCHRAN [HTML] [PDF] (JUDGE WOMACK JOINED ) DISSENTING OPINION JUDGE PRICE [HTML] [PDF] DISSENTING OPINION JUDGE JOHNSON [HTML] [PDF] (JUDGE HOLCOMB JOINED ) PUBLISHED ARTICLE 11...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on June 09, 2008 (boomark / email).