Edwards' execution has been rescheduled again to January 26, 2017.
http://tdcj.state.tx.us/death_row/dr...xecutions.html
Edwards' execution has been rescheduled again to January 26, 2017.
http://tdcj.state.tx.us/death_row/dr...xecutions.html
"There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche
No surprise..
This seems to be a political issue rather than a practical one.
I honestly don't get what's going on with Texas. Did they only get enough drugs for Fuller's execution? Are they just unwilling to execute people for some reason? I don't get it. I really hope Texas doesn’t pull an Ohio, but I'm starting to doubt if they'll execute again. Its possible they're waiting for SCOTUS to reject the lawsuit before proceeding.
Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next products.
"They will hurt you. They will hurt your grandma, these people. The root cause of this is there's no discipline in the homes, they don't go to school, you know, they live off the government, no personal accountability, and they just beat people up for no reason, and it's disgusting." - Former Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters
Who are you doubting? Ohio or Texas? Because Texas just had an execution two days ago. I get the feeling that his is just a quantity of drugs issue.
IT IS NOT A DRUG ISSUE IN TEXAS! Drug issue in Ohio until today.
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Are you sure they have drugs though? I mean, taking almost (or was it?) 40 minutes to execute someone seems like a lot to me...
Reason for Edwards' Delays
Edwards was slated to die Wednesday, but his execution date was delayed until Jan. 26 because his appointed counsel had been mostly absent in the time leading up to the date, according to the Austin Chronicle.
Edwards was originally scheduled to die May 11, but after he received a new set of attorneys as part of the Phillips Black Project, his execution date was pushed back so they could review the case.
Edwards has argued that he was not given a fair and impartial trial, due to the makeup of his trial jury. The U.S. Supreme Court refused his appeal in November, according to KXAS-TV (NBC5).
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime...brief-reprieve
"There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche
Death row inmate seeks to halt execution for Dallas-area murders, alleges prosecutor misconduct
AUSTIN — Terry Edwards wasn’t the trigger man in a 2002 Dallas-area robbery that left two dead, his lawyers say, contending that the state is preparing to execute the wrong man later this month.
“We uncovered really serious problems with the way this was prosecuted and also evidence that actually shows our client is not responsible for these shootings,” said Joseph Perkovich, one of Edwards’ lawyers.
Edwards was sentenced to die in 2003 for the shooting deaths of Tommy Walker, 34, and Mickell Goodwin, 26, at a Balch Springs Subway restaurant. Edwards had been fired from the store weeks earlier, and prosecutors said he killed the two before fleeing. Witnesses said Edwards later was seen dumping a .38-caliber handgun in a trash can across the street from the store. He was arrested the same day and found with $3,000 from the store.
Edwards is scheduled for execution Jan. 26, but his lawyers are seeking a stay in court documents filed last week. They want the state to reopen the case, which they say has been marred by prosecutorial misconduct and inept defense lawyers.
Edwards’ lawyers allege that Thomas D'Amore, the lead prosecutor, elicited false testimony from a forensic expert and unconstitutionally cherry-picked jurors so that the black defendant faced an all-white jury. They say Edwards’ cousin, who committed the robbery with him and is eligible for parole, was the gunman.
“The state elicited totally erroneous and unsubstantiated scientific testimony,” Perkovich said.
The Dallas County district attorney's office declined to comment on the lawyers' allegations. D'Amore was adamant that he didn't engage in any misconduct and that the jury's verdict was justified.
D’Amore, who was fired from the DA’s office in 2006, was a prosecutor for nearly two decades and is now a criminal defense lawyer. He has been involved in at least three convictions that higher courts have overturned.
Among them is the case of Richard Miles, who was convicted of murder in 1995. Miles was exonerated in 2012 after a witness in the case said D’Amore pressured him into incorrectly identifying Miles and lawyers discovered flawed scientific testimony from the trial.
In Miles’ case, D’Amore also solicited testimony from a forensic analyst who said that gunshot residue on his hands indicated he fired the murder weapon. Later, the analyst said her testimony was inaccurate.
The same analyst told jurors at Edwards’ trial that the young man had gunshot residue on his hands when he was arrested.
“The record now shows that it is ‘scientifically unsupportable’ to claim that the presence of barium alone on Mr. Edwards’s hands meant he was the shooter,” lawyers wrote in court documents.
Lawyers also contend that the prosecutor suppressed evidence from eyewitnesses who said they saw Edwards’ cousin inside the restaurant at the time of the murders and fleeing out the front door.
Additionally, Perkovich said, lawyers who were appointed to represent Edwards at his trial and during his appeals did shoddy work at best, failing to fully investigate his case or mount a full-throated defense against the state’s charges.
“There’s clearly ample material to require any court, or the district attorney’s office itself, to be so concerned as to stop this execution,” he said.
D'Amore said he stands by his work as a prosecutor and on Edwards' case specifically. He denied wrongdoing and said he was cleared of wrongdoing in the Miles conviction.
In Edwards' case, he said, the forensic expert was a defense witness, and he did not conspire with her to produce false testimony.
"There was no collusion. There was no gamesmanship," he said.
D'Amore said that his practice was to turn over all evidence to the prosecution and that he would have done so in Edwards' case. He also denied trying to strike blacks from the jury.
"It's simply not true," he said.
Edwards' lawyers are trying to get him out of the punishment that jurors decided he deserved for the crime, D'Amore said.
"There's absolutely no doubt he's guilty," he said. "Both sides did their jobs properly, and the jury called it as they saw it."
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime...tor-misconduct
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- Rev. Richard Hawke
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- Rowan Atkinson
ARTICLE 11.071 APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS DISMISSED WITH WRITTEN ORDER:
and
MOTION FOR STAY OF EXECUTION DENIED:
http://www.search.txcourts.gov/handd...ate=01/24/2017
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