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Killeen inmate set to die receives stay of execution

Aug. 15TEXAS----stay of impending executionKilleen inmate set to die receives stay of executionFor the 2nd time this year, a condemned Killeen killer received good news.Denard Manns, 43, was scheduled to die Aug. 20, but a U.S. district judgeordered that the execution be delayed since Manns was without counsel.Bell County District Attorney Henry Garza said Thursday that Manns'execution is now set for Nov. 13. Manns was sentenced to die by a BellCounty jury for the Nov. 19, 1998, fatal shooting of an Army medic at herhome in Killeen.The order will only buy Manns a few months and will come 6 days shy of the10th anniversary of the shooting that put him on death row.Walter S. Smith Jr., chief judge in the United States District Court forthe Western District, Waco Division, issued the order to delay theexecution since Manns' attorney, Walter Reeves, was removed from the case...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on August 16, 2008 (boomark / email).