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Thread: Tracy Lane Beatty - Texas Execution - November 9, 2022

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    Final Supreme Court Appeal

    No. 14-8291 *** CAPITAL CASE ***
    Title:
    Tracy Lane Beatty, Petitioner
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    William Stephens, Director, Texas Department of Justice, Correctional Institutions Division

    Docketed: February 5, 2015

    Lower Ct: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    Case Nos.: (13-70026)
    Decision Date: July 16, 2014
    Rehearing Denied: November 3, 2014

    ~~~Date~~~ ~~~~~~~Proceedings and Orders~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Feb 2 2015 Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 9, 2015)

    Mar 6 2015 Order extending time to file response to petition to and including April 8, 2015.
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    In today's orders, the US Supreme Court DENIED Beatty's certiorari petition.

    Lower Ct: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    Case Nos.: (13-70026)
    Decision Date: July 16, 2014
    Rehearing Denied: November 3, 2014

    http://www.supremecourt.gov/search.a...es/14-8291.htm

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    Smith County man condemned for mother's slaying loses appeal

    SMITH COUNTY, TX (KLTV) - The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to review an appeal from a Smith County man who was sent to death row for strangling his mother, leaving her body in the bathtub at her home for two days and then burying her in her backyard more than 11 years ago.

    Tracy Beatty, 54, of Whitehouse, was charged with capital murder in the 2004 trial for the slaying of his mother, Carolyn Click. Under Texas law, Beatty automatically got a chance to appeal the sentence, but according to Associated Press, Beatty went to the high court after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last summer rejected arguments he had deficient legal help at his trial. The justices refused his appeal Monday without comment.

    According to AP, Beatty had been paroled to his mother's home in Tyler from a 15-year prison term for theft from Dallas County. When arrested for her slaying, he already was in jail for auto theft and weapons possession.

    The last time someone in Smith County was sentenced to death was in October 2011. Kimberly Cargill, of Whitehouse, was sentenced to die for the 2011 of killing Candy Walker, who had worked for Cargill as a babysitter, to keep her from testifying in a child custody hearing.

    http://www.kltv.com/story/29105252/s...g-loses-appeal

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    His lawyer at trial didn't even offer any defense against the murder charge (as appears from reading the decision by the US Court of Appeals, 5th circuit), when the facts that emerge in the video show that it was no more than manslaughter. His mother was waiting for him when he returned from dinner and TV at the neighbor's house, and she started a horrible scene and physically assaulted him, and it was while defending himself and trying to shut her up that he killed her. Yes, he strangled her but she had been abusng him most of his life and that night he had drunk a bit too much and all he wanted was to sleep.
    Women who attack men should know that men will take only so much abuse, then comes a day when they strike back.
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    Beatty assaulted his mother on numerous occasions prior to his murdering her. She allowed him to move in and when she decided he had to go; he murdered her, stole her car, drained her credit and bank accounts to buy drugs and alcohol, gave away her personal items and buried her body in a shallow grave behind her mobile home.

    He is exactly where he belongs.

    How you can defend a man beating on a elderly woman, his own mother, is beyond me. Even if the mother had assaulted him, he was a guest in her home and he could have left.

    Why don't you dp groupies get your facts straight before you post nonsense.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brigitte View Post
    and that night he had drunk a bit too much and all he wanted was to sleep.
    Women who attack men should know that men will take only so much abuse, then comes a day when they strike back.
    WOW! Unarguably, that is the dumbest thing I have heard all week!

    Anyhoo, since you are his pen pal, can you tell me why he left her in the bathtub for 2 days?
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    Execution date set for East Texas man convicted of killing his mother

    The execution date for an East Texas man convicted for killing his mother was set Monday for 6 p.m. on August 13, 2015.

    Tracy Beatty, of Whitehouse, was convicted for the November 2003 killing of his mother in Smith County.

    During his court appearance Monday, there was noticeable amount of extra security. There were a total of six jailers and deputies along with two district attorney investigators.

    Before appearing in court, Beatty exhausted appeals at the local, state and Supreme Court level.

    Beatty was charged with capital murder for the death of his mother, Carolyn Click and sentenced to death. Click's preliminary autopsy found that she had been strangled and partially covered with nylon, then buried behind her home.

    Investigators said Beatty sold Click's car and admitted to using her credit cards as well as depleting all her assets.

    While searching for Click's body, investigators said a possible motive for the murder was revenge.

    http://www.ktre.com/story/29535858/e...ing-his-mother
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    Back-to-back Texas executions likely to go on despite strong Supreme Court dissent

    Wherever their summer travels have taken them, Supreme Court justices probably will weigh in on Texas' plans to execute two death row inmates in the week ahead.

    If past practice is any guide, the court is much more likely to allow the lethal-injection executions to proceed than to halt them.

    Opponents of the death penalty took heart when Justices Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg made the case against capital punishment in late June as arbitrary, prone to mistakes and time-consuming. Even if death penalty opponents eventually succeed, the timeline for abolition probably will be measured in years, not months.

    That's because Breyer, joined by Ginsburg, was writing in dissent in a case involving death row inmates in Oklahoma, and five sitting justices, a majority of the court, believe "it is settled that capital punishment is constitutional," as Justice Samuel Alito wrote in his opinion for the court in that same case.

    Texas has scheduled back-to-back executions Wednesday and Thursday for Daniel Lee Lopez and Tracy Lane Beatty.

    Lopez was convicted of running over a Texas police officer with his car during a high-speed chase. Lopez' lawyer already has asked the court to stop the execution.

    Beatty strangled his 62-year-old mother, then stole her car and drained her bank accounts. He has an appeal pending in lower courts and could also end up at the Supreme Court.

    The justices rarely issue last-minute reprieves to death-row inmates. Even after Breyer's opinion calling for a re-examination of capital punishment by the Supreme Court, no justice publicly backed a Missouri inmate's plea to halt his execution to allow the court to take up the constitutionality of the death penalty.

    Similarly, the three Oklahoma inmates who lost their high court case now face execution in September and October and want the justices to reconsider the decision from June in light of Breyer's dissent. The court almost never does that.

    The heightened attention on the death penalty comes amid declining use of capital punishment in the United States, and a sharp drop in the number of death penalty prosecutions.

    The 18 executions that have taken place so far this year have been carried out in just five states -- Texas, Missouri, Georgia, Florida and Oklahoma. Nine of those were in Texas. Twelve states with the death penalty have not had an execution in more than five years. That list includes California and Pennsylvania, which between them have more than 900 death row inmates.

    The relatively small number of states that actively seek to carry out death sentences underscores what Ginsburg characterized in late July as "the luck of the draw."

    "If you happen to commit a crime in one county in Louisiana, the chances you will get the death penalty are very high. On the other hand, if you commit the same deed in Minnesota, the chances are almost nil," she said at a Duke University law school event in Washington.

    Texas is far and away the leader in carrying out executions, but it too has seen a drop in the number of new inmates on its death row. No new death sentences have been imposed in Texas this year, said Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center.

    Geographic disparity was among several defects Breyer and Ginsburg identified in June. Another is the length of time many inmates spend living under a sentence of death, which Breyer had previously suggested also might be a violation of the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Six of the 18 men who have been executed in 2015 spent at least 20 years on death row, including one who served 31 years before his execution.

    Yet for all the systemic problems opponents of capital punishment can cite, they also have to reckon with what death penalty opponent Michael Meltsner called the "world of brutality and the awful capacity of people to commit violent crimes." One example: The Justice Department, which has otherwise advocated for criminal justice reforms during the Obama administration, won a death sentence in the case of convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

    "When awful things happen, people don't think about the costs and benefits. They react to circumstances. There is an ambivalence that has tracked the death penalty debate for many years," said Meltsner, a Northeastern University law professor and experienced civil rights lawyer.

    Among the questions surrounding the possibility that the Supreme Court would take up the constitutionality of the death penalty is the makeup of the court itself.

    With four justices in their late 70s or early 80s, the next president might have the chance to fill several vacancies and could change the court's direction.

    "Obviously, the composition of the court matters greatly and the biggest unknown variable about the life of the American death penalty is the presidential election of 2016. My expected time frame for constitutional abolition varies greatly based on the result," said Jordan Steiker, a University of Texas law professor.

    It took Breyer and Ginsburg more than 20 years on the Supreme Court to voice their doubt about capital punishment. Justices Harry Blackmun and John Paul Stevens likewise spoke out at the very end of their time on the court.

    Steiker said he thinks Breyer's dissent will serve as a road map for death penalty lawyers and future justices who may not feel constrained to wait before grappling with executions.

    "It was invigorating to those who'd like to see constitutional abolition," he said. "The arguments not new, but they had not been marshaled as effectively by a justice until this opinion."

    http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-cou...despite-strong
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    Texas inmate set to die for killing his mother gets reprieve

    HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - A 54-year-old East Texas man set to die this week for his mother's slaying more than 11 years ago has won a reprieve from Texas' highest criminal court.

    Tracy Beatty had been scheduled for lethal injection Thursday evening for the death of 62-year-old Carolyn Click in November 2003. Beatty recently had been paroled.

    The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, in a brief order Tuesday, stopped the execution pending further orders from the court. It gave no timetable.

    Click's body was found buried near her trailer home outside Tyler in Smith County. By then, Beatty already was in jail on auto theft and weapons charges.

    His attorneys argued Beatty had deficient legal help at his 2004 trial and during early appeals and that prosecutors used improper testimony at his trial.

    http://www.kltv.com/story/29762377/t...-gets-reprieve

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    CCA sticking its nose in again when it shouldn't. Frustrating......

    This makes 6 out of 7 this year that they have stayed it. Every other court would have denied a stay.

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