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The Judgment of Sharon Keller

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Michael Hall's latest Texas Monthly must-read, in the August issue.  LINK  Here's the opening:The most infamous phone call in recent Texas history came on the afternoon of September 25, 2007, when, at 4:45, Ed Marty, the general counsel of the Court of Criminal Appeals, dialed Sharon Keller, the court?s presiding judge. Both were in Austin; he was at the courthouse and she had gone home earlier to meet a repairman. One hundred and forty miles away, at the Walls Unit, in Huntsville, Michael Richard (pronounced ?Ree-shard?) sat in a cell adjacent to the execution chamber. He was scheduled to die that evening for a murder he?d committed in 1986. The CCA, the state?s highest criminal court and the final arbiter in all death penalty cases, was waiting for his last appeal...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 24, 2009 (boomark / email).