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Thread: Derrick Dewayne Charles - Texas Execution - May 12, 2015

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    I believe it's up to the trial court now, but I wouldn't expect anything until spring 2015.

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    TDCJ updated their page and Charles got a date of May 12, 2015.

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    So has his attorney filed an Atkins claim?

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    No mental disability claims or the usual claims against the 'painful' execution process yet?

    Or is that saved untill the last 2 days?

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    Austin Chronicle article

    Death Watch: Generations of Madness

    Next up on Texas' execution schedule – May 12 – is 32-year-old Derrick Charles.

    On July 2, 2002, then-19-year-old Charles beat, strangled, sexually assaulted, and eventually killed his 15-year-old girlfriend Myiesha Bennett, her mother Brenda Bennett, and her grandfather Obie Lee Bennett in their Houston home, for reasons Charles never could explain. He pled guilty, and was sentenced to death May 14, 2003. At trial, his attorneys did very little to help Charles save his life. According to petitions for writs of habeas corpus filed at the state and federal levels, his trial attorneys Connie Wil*liams and Sid Crowley called only four witnesses, and did no mitigation investigation whatsoever. Crowley in particular did "virtually nothing to prepare the punishment phase of Derrick's trial," wrote Randall Sorrels, who represented Charles during a petition for relief in 2009. Crowley reportedly billed only 15 hours on the case: 10 to read the prosecution's file, five to prep testimony for one witness, and zero for mitigating evidence.

    Those petitions also pointed to serious hardships Charles faced as a child growing up in Houston. He was born prematurely to an allegedly schizophrenic, unemployable mother and a father who left before he was born. His stepfather was an alcoholic abuser who regularly violently assaulted Charles' mother. Charles grew up in extreme poverty, the petitions reported, and was the product of a "multi-generational pattern of severe mental illness." He was intermittently hospitalized (and sent to psychiatric facilities) throughout his childhood, and tested at the second grade level of reading when he was 16.

    Charles had a petition for rehearing denied in Jan*uary 2014 and a petition for writ of certiorari denied by the U.S. Supreme Court last Octo*ber. Still at issue now is his competency and ability to understand his eventual execution. His attorney Paul Mansur told the Chron*icle Monday that federal HIPAA laws (relevant to his client's family's medical history) bar him from speaking specifically about recent efforts, but that he had plans to argue Charles' incompetence though certain filings scheduled after this story goes to press.
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    Habeas relief based on Ford vs. Wainwright and a stay of execution denied today by the 5th Circuit.

    http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions...15-70016.0.pdf

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    Derrick Charles is subsequently DENIED a stay of execution by the 5th circuit. The only option left to Charles is the US Supreme Court!

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    What really ticks me off about the scheduling of this on the 12th is that I have a prior commitment and can't participate in the TOD !!!!!!!!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by The World's End View Post
    Derrick Charles is subsequently DENIED a stay of execution by the 5th circuit. The only option left to Charles is the US Supreme Court!
    No. He's appealing to the trial court judge as well.

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    FFM do you know what the basis for his appeal is?
    "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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