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Texas kills

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Tongiht Texas killed Heliberto Chi.  The Star-Telegram notes: Heliberto Chi, the native Honduran who shot an Arlington store manager in the back during an after-hours robbery in 2001, was executed Thursday evening after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch appeal to spare his life. Chi, 29, was prounounced dead at 6:25 p.m. while the two sons of his victim witnessed the lethal injection in a tiny room adjacent to the death chamber in Huntsville?s Walls Prison Unit. The high court rebuffed the argument by Chi?s lawyers that their client?s conviction for killing 56-year-old Armand Paliotta on March 24, 2001, was tainted because he was not made aware of an international treaty that would have allowed him to seek help from representatives from his home country after his arrest...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on August 07, 2008 (boomark / email).