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Karl Chamberlain still has Texas execution date Feb. 21, 2008

By "Persian Cowboy"

Dave Maass, who used to work for the San Antonio Current and now is at the Santa Fe Reporter, has an article on Karl Chamberlain in this week's edition of the SFR. Chamberlain is the only person in Texas who currently has a scheduled execution date. All the other scheduled executions in Texas have been stayed pending a decision in the Baze case. Across the country, death-row inmates have filed for, and uniformly received, stays of execution as the US Supreme Court considers the constitutionality of the three-chemical lethal injection method employed in 37 states. Yet, no lawyer has so far filed for a stay for Chamberlain.The Dallas County District Attorney?s Office tells SFR via e-mail that it will withdraw the execution date if the Supreme Court doesn?t rule before Feb...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on January 29, 2008 (boomark / email).