Remanded to the trial court.
Time wasting........
http://search.txcourts.gov/SearchMed...a-9a688685420c
Remanded to the trial court.
Time wasting........
http://search.txcourts.gov/SearchMed...a-9a688685420c
How long till trial court rules on his appeal?
Motion for DNA testing denied.
http://search.txcourts.gov/SearchMed...b-bcdc3047fc27
Hall sounds like one of those clowns playing crazy “Execute me, no don’t” like Tabler. Ironically I think they do that to play the system and buy more time.
Brandon Daniel also comes to mind.
"The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer." -Theodore Roosevelt
Execution dates set for two more Texas death row prisoners
By Keri Blakinger
The Houston Chronicle
Two more Texas death row prisoners — a North Texas man who stabbed his family and an Aryan gang member from El Paso who strangled a woman — are now scheduled for execution this year.
Robert Sparks was sentenced to die in 2008 after a chaotic trial in Dallas County, where he was convicted of murdering his wife and two stepsons before raping his stepdaughter. He still has pending appeals in the case, but a judge this week greenlit a Sept. 25 execution date, court records show.
Justen Hall was sent to death row in 2005, three years after strangling a woman with an electrical cord. He is slated to die on Nov. 6, according to a prison spokesman.
The Lone Star State has executed three men so far in 2019, and with the addition of the two new execution dates, there are eight more prisoners scheduled to die this year.
Just after midnight on Sept. 15, 2007, Sparks put his hand over the mouth of his wife, Chare Agnew, and stabbed her 18 times in her bed, according to court records. Then, one at a time, he woke up his stepsons — 9-year-old Harold and 10-year-old Raekwon — and stabbed them 45 times each, dragging their bodies into the living room and stashing them under a comforter.
Next, he went after the girls, raping his 14-year-old stepdaughter on the couch while her younger sister watched. Afterward, he apologized to them for the rapes and murders — but said their mother had been trying to poison him.
He was arrested a few days later and tried the following year. On appeal, he raised concerns about the possibility of false testimony offered by A.P. Merillat, a state expert who told the court about the prison classification system and claimed that Sparks could still pose a threat behind bars.
That claim is currently in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, along with one about how a bailiff’s courtroom attire may have biased the jury. During the punishment phase of trial — when jurors decided on whether Sparks deserved to die by lethal injection — one of the bailiffs wore a necktie with an image of a syringe on it.
It’s not clear whether the jury could see that tie, and so far courts have decided it wasn’t enough to make a difference in the outcome of the case.
The attorneys representing Sparks — Seth Kretzer and Jonathan Landers — this week questioned the decision to set an execution date with litigation still pending in court.
“The Office of the Attorney General, which represents the state, filed a motion asking for more time,” Kretzer told the Chronicle, “and yet the district attorney’s office wants an immediate execution date. There’s no reason to force the Supreme Court’s hand.”
The other condemned prisoner added to the list of upcoming executions has been on death row for nearly 15 years for a murder stemming from a fight outside drug house in El Paso.
On Oct. 28, 2002, Melissa Billhartz got in fight with a man she knew, and the dispute escalated into an assault. Afterward, she said she wanted to call police - and Hall and his friends became worried, fearing authorities would discover the meth house.
The others opposed that plan, according to court records, but Hall left and a few hours later showed up with the woman’s body in the back of a truck. He then ordered a friend to go bury her and cut off her fingers with a machete so police couldn’t find any DNA.
In the early years after he was sentenced to die, Hall asked to give up his appeals. Later, his attorneys raised concerns about DNA testing on the cord used to kill Billhartz, and suggested his confession was coerced.
But in 2016, Hall again asked to waive his appeals in a letter to the court.
“These walls 24/7 have broken me,” he wrote. “It is taking every last ounce of will to even make it from day to day.”
The following year, he told a judge he was guilty and ready to die, assuring the court he was mentally competent to make that decision. His attorney on Friday did not respond to a request for comment.
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-t...w-14060202.php
"The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer." -Theodore Roosevelt
Hall fought his appeals at every stage, yet only the writer only mentions that he dropped his appeals.
"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
What will be the reason this will be stayed? Any bets? Because it will.
"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
Same as 2018. Everything fine until October, then they stayed Rockwell, Segundo, Kemp, and I don't remember if there has been someone else.
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