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Texas AP has, "Man who killed parents set to die Thursday."Condemned inmate Calrton Turner's hopes to avoid the Texas death chamber for a second time for killing his parents a decade ago rested again with the U.S. Supreme Court. Turner, whose lethal injection was set for Thursday evening, has acknowledged fatally shooting his adoptive parents at their suburban Dallas home 10 years ago. And:On Wednesday, a state district judge in Dallas refused to withdraw the execution date. Turner's attorneys filed an appeal contending his trial was unfair because of racial discrimination in jury selection. Turner, who is black, was tried before an all-white jury and his lawyers argued only one minority person may have been among the 80 potential jurors questioned individually during selection...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 10, 2008 (boomark / email).