This is intentional. DP in Texas is dying due to stunts like this. This is the 5th time in the past two years where a warrant was delivered late and sent to the wrong office. You can't be coherent if you believe this wasn't intentional.
Furthermore, the Order Setting Execution Date (page 10 of the PDF) says,
“Within 10 days of the signing of this Order, the Clerk of this Court shall issue and deliver to the Sheriff of Cameron County, Texas, a Warrant of Execution . . . .”
The Order Setting Execution Date was entered June 27, 2019. The Sheriff’s Return (page 12 of the PDF) shows that it was delivered to the Sheriff on July 9, 2019—twelve days after the Order Setting Execution Date was entered. The warrant thus violates the 107th District Court’s own Order Setting Execution Date, as it was delivered two days late. And Article 43.15 mandates delivery of the warrant to the sheriff “not later than the 10th day after the court enters its order setting the date for execution.”
In addition, as explained in Relator’s prior submission, the copy of the “Warrant of Execution” (without the “Death Warrant”) filed in this Court on October 15, 2019, by the District Attorney, was sent directly to TDCJ and not to the Sheriff as required by Article 43.15; and, as explained in Relator’s application for a writ of mandamus, the clerk never sent a copy of the warrant with “the required seal of the court affixed” to OCFW.
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