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    First, I can't believe the trial court was so damn stupid to forget such an important detail. Second, the better news, this guy won't be able to play the same card that Ramirez did the other day, even though he intended to. Finally, we probably have to wait half a damn year until the CCA lifts the stay on this punk.

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    Oh my god, these guys have 7 lives.

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    Texas is the only state that is depleting its death row, and must be commended for that. This kind of technicality is ridiculous. I am a firm and staunch believer in the appeals system. We never want to execute an innocent. TX has done it twice in over 600 executions (Johnny Frank Garrett and Cameron Todd Willingham) but that is twice too many. The system must constantly improve. I believe if there is even a shadow of a doubt the inmate deserves a stay. This piece of garbage does not qualify. There is absolutely no doubt that this guy did it.

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    Well to be fair, they broke the law. With things like this you just can not break the law. There was nothing else the TCCA could have done really. I agree that it is a bit bogus, but you just can't break the law, especially not when it comes to executions.

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    Once again, not a claim of innocence but a technical error causes the victim's loved ones to needlessly suffer longer.
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    New death date for inmate spared from execution this week

    A Texas death row inmate whose execution date scheduled for this week was halted because of a legal technicality has received a new execution date.

    Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark says the prison agency has received court documents setting 37-year-old prisoner Tilon Carter's lethal injection for May 16.

    Carter had been set to die Tuesday for smothering an 89-year-old man during a robbery at the man's Fort Worth home. But the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals issued an order last Friday halting the punishment because a state office that represents death row inmates was notified of the scheduled punishment a half-day late, a violation of state law.

    Carter was condemned for the 2004 robbery and slaying of James Tomlin, a retired Bell Helicopter worker.

    http://www.krgv.com/story/34470463/n...tion-this-week
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    Death Watch: The Capital of Capital Punishment

    For the second time this year, Tilon Carter faces execution – this time, he's set for Huntsville's gurney next Tuesday, May 16. Carter was convicted of capital murder in 2006 in Tarrant County, for the robbery and suffocation of 89-year-old James Eldon Tomlin. He received a stay in January based on a technicality involving the filing of his death warrant, so the Court of Crim*inal Appeals ordered the lower court to reset Carter's execution date. Carter has exhausted his appeals, but maintains that Tomlin's death was accidental. Robin Norris, his attorney, did not respond to requests for comment.

    The resetting of execution dates combined with last-minute stays is one of several injustices highlighted in "Designed to Break You: Human Rights Violations on Texas' Death Row," a recent report from the Human Rights Clinic at the UT School of Law. The yearlong study focused on the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's repeated resetting of execution dates, inmates' limited access to religious services, and – most significantly – the Polunsky Unit's use of solitary confinement.

    Texas has been dubbed the Capital of Capital Punishment. Since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, the state has executed 542 people. (Carter would bump that to 543.) Oklahoma and Virginia have the second and third most deadly death rows, each with 112 executions. Texas' death row inmates spend 22-24 hours a day in solitary. Though the TDCJ allows inmates up to two hours of "recreation" time daily, the report notes: "In practice, death row inmates often do not receive outdoor [time]." And even outside, the so-called "yard" is a slightly larger cell closed off by high concrete walls and caging over the top, which limits natural light. It's typical for death row inmates to spend more than a decade living in these conditions prior to their execution.

    Mandatory confinement has been required since the men's death row was transferred from Huntsville to the Polunsky Unit in nearby West Livingston in 1999. All human contact has been banned as well. The TDCJ's severe use of solitary and isolation has been called inhumane by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the Organization of American States, and the European Convention on Human Rights. The UT report states the use of solitary, to such a degree, is incredibly detrimental to inmates' mental health – most noticeably those already suffering from mental illness. In what is dubbed "death row syndrome," prisoners report experiencing severe depression, memory loss, suicidal tendencies, and more. The study summarizes, they're "effectively subject to a severe form of psychological torture every day of their lives."

    Asked for a response to the study, Jason Clark, the TDCJ's director of public information, told us: "Offenders on death row are individuals who've been convicted of heinous crimes and given the harshest sentence possible under the law. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice will continue to ensure it fulfills its mission of public safety and house death row offenders appropriately."

    According to Ariel Dulitzky, a UT Law professor and the director of the Human Rights Clinic, TDCJ declined to meet with the clinic over the course of the study, and has yet to respond to a follow-up request made earlier this month. However, Dulitzky said the clinic hopes this report will secure a "complete ban" of mandatory solitary confinement. In the interim, the clinic is advocating for the prohibition of confinement for all inmates with mental health problems, for the implementation of "physical contact visits with families and attorneys, communal religious services," and for improvements to health care.

    http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/...al-punishment/
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    Execution halted amid claims of false evidence at trial

    Four days before he was set to die, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Friday afternoon halted the execution of a man convicted in the 2004 robbery and murder of an 89-year-old man in his Fort Worth home. It’s the second time he’s had an execution taken off the schedule this year.

    Tilon Carter, 37, filed a late appeal to the court Monday claiming the prosecution used false evidence at trial that the victim, James Tomlin, died partially from being smothered. Carter has maintained that he never intentionally killed Tomlin.

    The Court of Criminal Appeals issued an order Friday afternoon staying the execution while they look into the case. His death was set for Tuesday evening. It would have been the fifth in Texas this year.

    After Tomlin's death, Carter admitted to police that he and LaKeitha Allen broke into Tomlin’s home, bound him with duct tape and robbed him, according to court filings. But he claims he didn’t smother Tomlin and left him alive but bound. The medical examiner testified during trial that Tomlin died partially from smothering, but also from “positional asphyxiation,” meaning he suffocated after being left in a dangerous position unable to move.

    In his new appeal, Carter's attorney cited other pathologists who disagreed that Tomlin was killed by smothering.

    “While the experts disagreed on the ultimate cause—whether Mr. Tomlin’s death was caused by positional asphyxiation or a cardiac event—they unanimously agreed that the evidence does not show that Mr. Tomlin’s death was the result of intentional smothering,” wrote Raoul Schonemann, Carter’s attorney, in his latest response to the court.

    The Tarrant County District Attorney's Office argued Wednesday that Carter’s arguments were barred from examination because the issue should and could have been raised at an earlier time in his appeals process.

    https://www.texastribune.org/2017/05...ent=1494628243

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    ARTICLE 11.071 APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS REMANDED TO TRIAL COURT WITH WRITTEN ORDER:

    http://search.txcourts.gov/SearchMed...e-e97c8daed29c

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    Trial court ordered to review case of Fort Worth death row inmate

    BY MITCH MITCHELL
    THE FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM

    FORT WORTH - An appeals court has ordered that autopsy evidence presented during a 2006 death penalty trial must be re-evaluated by a Tarrant County court.

    The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in Austin ruled Wednesday that the trial court in Tilon Lashon Carter’s case must resolve questions regarding the statements of Nizam Peerwani, Tarrant County Medical Examiner, and three other forensic pathologists.

    Carter, 37, was convicted of the robbery and 2004 slaying of James Tomlin, 89, a Bell Helicopter retiree, and sentenced to death on a capital murder charge. Prosecutors said that Carter and his girlfriend, Leketha Allen, went to Tomlin's home to rob him and took $6,000.

    Allen, 32, was sentenced to 25 years after agreeing to a plea bargain arrangement with prosecutors.

    The appeals court ruled that a motion arguing that Carter received ineffective trial counsel and was denied due process because Peerwani presented false and misleading testimony had merit.

    Appeals court judges also found that statements from pathologists were contradictory. Peerwani testified that Tomlin was intentionally smothered during the course of events that led to his death. Peerwani concluded that the inner markings on Tomlin’s lips indicted that the victim was intentionally smothered, appeal court documents stated.

    Peerwani later stated that Tomlin did not die of smothering and that the inner markings inside his lip could have been caused by something like a slap to the face. Also, forensic pathologists did not agree on a cause of death for Tomlin and none could say that Carter intended to kill Tomlin, a necessary element for a capital murder conviction, according to court documents.

    Carter has come close to being executed, but has had his scheduled execution date postponed twice.

    Carter was originally scheduled to be executed in February, but that execution date was postponed due to a technicality. That time, the appeals court granted a stay of execution by a 5-4 vote on the grounds that notice of the scheduled execution date arrived half a day late at a state office that sometimes works on death penalty appeals.

    Carter’s execution date was re-scheduled for May. The appeals court granted Carter a second stay of execution a week before it was scheduled to take place.

    Carter was one of four death row inmates from Tarrant County scheduled to be executed this year. So far, Texas has put two of them to death.

    The courts are deliberating whether Paul Storey, a man convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death for the 2006 slaying of Jonas Cherry, a manager at the Putt-Putt Golf and Games, will be executed.

    Appellate judges are awaiting a recommendation from State District Judge Everett Young on whether prosecutors misled the jury about Cherry’s parents’ opposition to the death penalty.

    Storey, who refused to take a guilty plea in the capital murder case that would have met a life sentence, was in court earlier in September witnessing the testimony of attorneys who tried his case in 2008.

    The state has executed five death row inmates this year and two are from Tarrant County. Christopher Wilkins was put to death on Jan. 11 for a double murder committed in Fort Worth. He was the first person to be executed in the United States this year.

    Texas also executed a former Kennedale auto mechanic who killed a father and his infant son in a 1987 Christmas Eve killing spree. James Eugene Bigby, 61, was pronounced dead on March 14.

    http://www.star-telegram.com/news/lo...176398411.html

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