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Fifth Circuit Stays Swearingen Execution

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"Man in Montgomery County gets stay of execution," is the report at the Houston Chronicle website by Renee Lee.Condemned killer Larry Swearingen has been granted a second stay of execution. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit handed down the ruling this morning. Swearingen was set to be executed by  injection on Tuesday. `We're glad that someone has stepped in,'' said Swearingen's attorney James Rytting. ``We think this is an extraordinary case of actual innocence. We're hopeful that the federal courts will give the evidence a fair review.'' Swearingen has been on death row in the Polunsky Unit in Livingston since 2000. He was found guilty by a Montgomery County jury of kidnapping, raping and strangling 19-year-old Melissa Trotter on Dec...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 26, 2009 (boomark / email).