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    Houston serial killer denied clemency 2 days before scheduled execution

    With two days to go before his scheduled date with death, Houston serial killer Danny Bible on Monday lost out on a bid for clemency.

    The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles denied the aging prisoner's plea in a 6-0 vote, according to his attorneys. He's now scheduled to die by lethal injection on Wednesday in the Huntsville death chamber.

    But the 66-year-old condemned killer still has a shot at a stay from the federal courts, where his attorneys have launched a lawsuit claiming he's in such poor health he can't be executed. That claim is currently in front of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

    Bible was sentenced to death in 2003, after he confessed to the 1979 slaying of Inez Deaton. The young mother had been stabbed 11 times with an ice pick and left along the slope of a Houston bayou.

    In 1984, he was sent to prison for killing his sister-in-law Tracy Powers and her infant son Justin. Then, he killed her roommate, Pam Hudgins, and left the woman's body hanging from a roadside fence.

    He was released after eight years behind bars, and went on to rape and molest multiple young relatives, including a 5-year-old. In 1998, he raped a woman in a Louisiana motel room, then stuffed her in a duffel bag before she broke free and called for help.

    Bible was eventually caught in Florida and extradited to Louisiana, where he confessed to his crimes.

    But in their clemency petition, Bible's lawyers wrote that he'd admitted to the earlier slaying in exchange for a promise of avoiding the death chamber - a promise they said was "clearly not honored by the state."

    Attorneys also told of Bible's transformation from four-time killer to remorseful Christian, and said that he's no longer a future danger given his poor medical condition. Bible has Parkinson's and uses a wheelchair, a fact that has come up repeatedly in appeals over the past decade.

    Texas has already executed six men this year, including another Houston serial killer, Anthony Shore. Aside from Bible's, there are seven other death dates on the calendar in Texas.

    https://www.chron.com/news/houston-t...s-13024576.php

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    Stay of execution denied by the 5th Circuit.

    https://cases.justia.com/federal/app...?ts=1530055824
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    Bible entered Huntsville death house at 1.50pm.

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    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
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    Texas executes Danny Paul Bible for 1979 rape, murder in Houston

    HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- Danny Paul Bible, a 66-year-old Texas prisoner accused of four killings and at least nine rapes, has been executed for a 1979 rape and murder in Houston that went unsolved for two decades until he confessed. Bible received lethal injection Wednesday evening for the death of 20-year-old Inez Deaton, whose body was found on the banks of a Houston bayou.

    Bible's attorneys had argued to the courts that his multiple health issues made it likely his punishment would be botched and cause him unconstitutional pain. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-day appeal about an hour before he was put to death.

    CBS affiliate KHOU-TV writes that Bible did mutter "burning ... it hurts" as his mother and siblings watched the execution. Bible gave no final statement. His head was shaking slightly as the lethal dose of the sedative pentobarbital began. His attorneys said Parkinson's disease was among his ailments.

    Despite fears from his attorneys that a vein would not be found for the IVs, prison technicians had one needle inserted in his left hand three minutes after he was strapped to the death chamber gurney. The second IV was inserted in his right hand after another three minutes.

    He was pronounced dead at 6:32 p.m., about 15 minutes after the lethal dose started. The execution was the seventh this year in Texas, the country's most active death penalty state.

    Bible's guilt was not disputed, but his lawyers had proposed he be rolled in his wheelchair in front of a firing squad or be administered nitrogen gas to cut off oxygen to his brain until he stopped breathing. Lawyers argued his deteriorating health left his veins unsuitable for IVs to be inserted.

    If either of those alternatives wasn't possible - and state attorneys said neither was - Bible's lawyers said his punishment should be stopped.

    "His unique and severe medical conditions render lethal injection an intolerably cruel method of execution as applied to him," attorney Nadia Wood told the high court. His civil rights claim "should not be barred simply because Texas has not authorized an alternative method of execution."

    Bible's appeal went to the Supreme Court after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday refused his lawsuit seeking a reprieve, a restraining order and an injunction. Assistant Texas Attorney General Stephen Hoffman said in a court filing that the lawsuit was a "meritless tactic" to delay his "well-deserved execution."

    Lethal injection is the only execution method allowed in Texas and changing that would require approval of the state Legislature, which isn't scheduled to meet again until next year. A handful of death penalty states allow nitrogen hypoxia, although the method hasn't been used. Three Utah inmates have been executed by firing squad, the most recent in 2010. Utah now allows that method if drugs for execution are unavailable.

    Bible's lawyers also argued that severe tremors accompanying his Parkinson's disease would complicate insertion of needles. They warned of a problematic execution like ones in recent years in Ohio and Alabama.

    Hoffman, the state attorney, noted that IVs had been used recently to draw blood from Bible as part of his medical care.

    Bible was a drifter with a record of violence in several states when he was arrested in Fort Myers, Florida, in 1999 for a rape in Louisiana. He told detectives in Louisiana about four Texas killings - including the death of a 4-month-old boy - and at least nine rapes, including five in San Jacinto County northeast of Houston.

    The four slaying victims included 20-year-old Inez Deaton, a friend of Bible's cousin who was found on the banks of a Houston bayou in 1979. Investigators determined she had been raped and fatally stabbed with an ice pick. The killing went unsolved for decades before Bible linked himself to the case, and a jury decided in 2003 that the man who became known in Houston as "the ice pick killer" should die for the slaying.

    The three other killings all occurred in North Texas on the same day in May 1983. The victims were Bible's sister-in-law, Tracy Powers; her 4-month-old son, Justin; and Powers' roommate, Pam Hudgins.

    Bible pleaded guilty to Hudgins' death and was sentenced to 25 year in prison. He served seven and was released to Montana in 1992 on a form of parole known as mandatory supervision.

    At his trial for Deaton's slaying in Texas, Harris County prosecutors presented evidence of robberies, thefts, assaults and abductions, including the rape of an 11-year-old girl in Montana and his confessions to repeated sexual assaults of young girls from 1996 to 1998.

    "Some criminals' actions are so heinous, they earn the label 'worst of the worst,'" Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/inmate-...ay-2018-06-27/
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