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: Sentencing Law and Policy

Texas able to complete one execution, after SCOTUS stayed another

By Douglas A. Berman

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As detailed in this Reuters article, headlined "Texas executes man for prison stabbing," the state of Texas batted .500 this week in trying to carry out scheduled executions.  Here are the basics, along with some broaded execution data: A man convicted of fatally stabbing a fellow inmate in a state prison in 1999 was executed in Texas on Thursday evening by lethal injection. Lee Taylor was to be the second man put to death in Texas this week.  But on Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court stayed the execution of John Balentine, who fatally shot three teenagers in Amarillo in 1998.  Balentine had raised an issue about whether he has a right to be represented by a lawyer in a post-conviction state hearing challenging the effectiveness of his lawyers at trial...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 17, 2011 (boomark / email).

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