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Texas CCA Stays Green Execution - UPDATED

By Steve Hall

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An updated AP report has been filed, "Killer of 12-year-old girl wins execution reprieve."Green's lawyers were in the courts as his execution neared, contending his delusions and mental illness made him ineligible for execution and that he was entitled to a competency hearing. The U.S. Supreme Court has held mental illness does not disqualify someone from execution as long as the prisoner understands the punishment he is facing and why he is being punished.When Green's appeal was turned down earlier this week by State District Court Judge Lisa Michalk, his trial court judge in Montgomery County, his lawyers took their appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeals in Austin. The appellate court, in halting the punishment, said it "needs more information" about how Michalk arrived at her decision about Green's competency because some standards mentioned in the record of her decision "are not applicable in this instance...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 30, 2010 (boomark / email).