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    Orlando Cordia Hall - Federal Execution - November 19, 2020


    Lisa Rene




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    Tried in Fort Worth, Texas for the abduction, sexual assault and beating murder of 16-year-old Lisa Rene in 1994. Hall was sentenced to death in November 1995. In a separate trial, co-defendant Bruce Carneil Webster was sentenced to death in June 1996.

    For more on Webster, see: http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/...eral-Death-Row

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    After the completion of all legal appeals, Hall has joined the lethal-injection litigation in the DC Circuit Court.

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    Duncanville drug dealer whose rivals buried teenage sister alive gets 12 years in prison

    By CHRISTINA ROSALES
    The Dallas Morning News

    A Duncanville drug dealer whose rivals buried his teenage sister alive in 1994 was sentenced to more than 12 years in federal prison for his involvement in a three-year drug-trafficking conspiracy.

    Neil Nick Rene, 37, pleaded guilty in October to carrying out a scheme in which he and others mailed packages of marijuana from North Texas to the Virgin Islands, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.

    He was sentenced to 151 months in prison. Two conspirators were also sentenced after guilty pleas: April Michelle Greene, 37, of Fort Worth got 78 months and Kareem Ambrose, 33, received 12 months and a $1,000 fine.

    A third, 48-year-old Carl Gayheart Schou, pleaded guilty in November and is to be sentenced in October.

    This isn’t the first brush with the law for Rene. Authorities said the 1994 murder of his sister, Lisa Rene, came after he and his half brother, Stanfield Vitalis, owed $5,000 for drugs to Orlando Hall of El Dorado, Ark.

    When the brothers didn’t pay up, Hall and four other men headed to Arlington where the brothers lived. They didn’t find the brothers but in retaliation abducted the 16-year-old honor student.

    “You would have hoped he would have changed his ways, but that’s exactly why he got in trouble,” Richard Roper, the former U.S. attorney who prosecuted Lisa Rene’s killers, said after Rene’s arrest last year. “He got into things that led to a series of events that led to the murder of his sister, Lisa, who was completely innocent.”

    The girl was taken to Arkansas, where she was raped, beaten with a shovel and buried alive. She pleaded with her killers to spare her, apologizing for her brothers’ actions and promising to pay back the money.

    Hall was sentenced to death, along with Bruce Webster. Both men remain on death row at a federal prison in Indiana. Three accomplices pleaded guilty to kidnapping and testified against the killers.

    In the drug-trafficking conspiracy case against Nick Rene, authorities say he, Green and Schou mailed parcels of marijuana from several post offices in North Texas to buyers in St. Croix and used fake return addresses.

    The buyers in St. Croix would then mail the dealers proceeds from the sales in the form of U.S. Postal money orders, according to a statement from U.S. Attorney Sarah Saldaņa’s office. To disguise the transactions further, Rene and Schou mailed the proceeds to third parties and deposited money orders into their own bank accounts or cashed them at several locations.

    Their arrests in April 2012 came after a two-year investigation and the arrests of several others in St. Croix. Authorities believe Rene was the ringleader in the conspiracy.

    http://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime...-in-prison.ece

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    On April 19, 2017, Hall filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court in Indiana.

    https://dockets.justia.com/docket/in...7cv00176/73201
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    On March 28, 2019, Hall filed a successive habeas petition in Federal District Court in Texas.

    https://dockets.justia.com/docket/te...cv00258/315187

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    On July 21, 2020, oral argument will be heard in Hall's appeal before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

    http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/clerk/ca...7/19-10345.htm

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    As much as I hate to say, this guy is lucky. He got to spend a lot of time in federal death row instead of waiting out his sentence in Livingston. I hear federal death row is a much better place to stay at than Livingston.

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    I'd say the same about Vialva and Bernard.
    Violence and death seem to be the only answers that some people understand.

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    In today's orders, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit DENIED Hall's petition to file a new habeas challenge to his federal conviction and death sentence. Judge Dennis dissented.

    https://cases.justia.com/federal/app...2020-10-30.pdf

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    Maybe I'm mistaken, but every now and then I get the feeling many of these dissents are getting increasingly nasty. Dennis speaks of "grievous errors" and ends with "Because the majority errs in denying authorization, I respectfully dissent." Instead of simply saying, "therefore I respectfully dissent". There is no added value in stating in the final words that the majority "errs". The sole fact that you're penning a dissent makes it clear enough that you disagree with their view. Saying that the others err leaves no room for the possibility that you're wrong yourself and suggests that your view is somehow inescapable. It's not up to Dennis to determine whether the others erred, only SCOTUS can do so.

    Anyway, it seems to me that judicial opinions are getting more combattive - just like society.

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