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    It won’t. Hummel doesn’t seem to be trying to save his own life and SCOTUS has never given the ACLU the time of day. The only thing that could spare Hummel is the TCCA and I don’t believe they will
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    I don't think the ACLU has filed any litigation here. They're just asking Abbott to issue a 30 day stay. I don't think any appeals are pending.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bobsicles View Post
    SCOTUS has never given the ACLU the time of day.
    What?
    "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

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    Texas inmate faces execution after killing 3 family members

    By Juan Lozano
    The Associated Press

    A Texas inmate faces execution on Wednesday after killing his pregnant wife, 5-year-old daughter and father-in-law more than a decade ago in what prosecutors called a brutal and senseless attack.

    Authorities say John Hummel stabbed his wife, Joy Hummel, more than thirty times in December 2009. He then used a baseball bat to beat to death his daughter, Jodi Hummel, and his 57-year-old father-in-law, Clyde Bedford, who used a wheelchair. He then set their home on fire in Kennedale, a Fort Worth suburb.

    Prosecutors say he killed his family because he wanted to run off with a woman he met at a convenience store. After the fire, Hummel fled to Oceanside, California, near San Diego, but was later arrested. Investigators say he confessed to the killings.

    Hummel, 45, who had been working as a hospital security guard, was convicted of capital murder in the deaths of his father-in-law and his 34-year-old wife.

    Michael Mowla, Hummel’s attorney, does not plan to file any last-minute appeals, saying all available legal avenues have been exhausted.

    Appeals courts had rejected Mowla’s attempts to stop the execution over claims Hummel had not been properly assessed on whether he would be a future danger, which is one of the questions Texas juries must answer in death penalty cases. Mowla also unsuccessfully argued the appearance of impropriety in the case as Hummel’s trial lawyer now works for the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office, which convicted him.

    Hummel had been scheduled for execution on March 18, 2020, but that was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

    Bedford’s sister, Cylinda Bedford, said she’s still doesn’t understand why Hummel killed his family. She described Joy Hummel, who worked as a massage therapist, as outgoing and bubbly. Jodi had been excited about starting school, and Clyde Bedford, who was better known by his nickname Eddie, “loved that grand baby,” Cylinda Bedford said.

    “Come on, your own baby. You gotta be some kind of monster,” Bedford, 54, a retired body shop technician, said of Hummel. “I don’t have no closure. And him being put to death is not going to be closure either because then we’ll never know why.”

    Hummel’s attorney also argued that his client suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and other issues related to his military service that caused him to “snap” one night.

    But Miles Brissette, a prosecutor at Hummel’s trial, said authorities discovered Hummel had previously tried to kill his family by putting rat poison in a spaghetti dinner.

    On the night of the killings, Hummel stood in his kitchen for 30 minutes so he could “psych himself up” for what he was about to do, and after killing his wife, he caught his breath before fatally beating the others, Brissette said.

    “This guy senselessly took the life of a beautiful mother, a beautiful child and a grandfather that just did everything for them. For him to want to be single and just kill them this way is senseless,” said Brissette, who is now a defense attorney in Fort Worth.

    Hummel would be the second inmate executed in Texas this year and the fifth in the U.S. Last month, Texas resumed executions after nearly a year. But it didn’t go as planned: The execution was performed without media witnesses. An investigation blamed the mistake on several factors, including new personnel and procedures, along with insufficient oversight.

    Cylinda Bedford said nothing will make up for the loss her family still feels at Christmas or on birthdays. And a piece of her history was lost when Hummel burned down the family home where her father was born and raised and where her parents raised their children. Her family sold the land where the home stood but nothing new has been built there.

    “It’s still an empty lot,” Bedford said.

    https://apnews.com/article/texas-exe...2ec79974dc4d11

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    According to Hummel’s attorney, he’s accepted his fate and will not be filing any last minute appeals. I actually believe this since he wasn’t included on the opinions this morning and since he hasn’t filed to the federal district court, Fifth Circuit or SCOTUS
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    Hummel just rolled into town. With no appeals pending, an on time 6pm execution will go forward. Media witnesses have been advised before the execution as per Quintin Jones' execution by Warden Dennis Crowley.
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    When his execution goes through, it will be the first time Texas has had less than 200 people on death row this century.

    The last time Texas has had less then 200 people on death row was back in the 80s.

    The row in Texas will shrink even more from here on out especially if Harris county ever clears out their backlog.
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    Who knows. Maybe Ogg will man up.

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    Hummel was pronounced dead at 6:49 PM
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    Texas executes John Hummel for murdering his family in 2009

    A civil liberties group had tried to delay Hummel's death after reporters were excluded from the state’s last execution

    Texas executed John Hummel Wednesday evening for the 2009 murders of his family members.

    Hummel, 45, was sentenced to death by a Tarrant County jury in 2011 after the slayings of his pregnant wife, his 5-year-old daughter and his father-in-law at their Kennedale home. Police found their burned, beaten bodies in or near their beds after responding to an early morning fire, according to court records. Officials determined that they died by blunt-force injuries before the fire was set.

    In his first interview with police, Hummel said he was at a store and not home at the time of the crime. But after he was later apprehended at the California-Mexico border, he confessed to stabbing and beating his wife before beating the other two victims and setting fire to his house, records show. Weapons later found in a dumpster matched his and the victims’ DNA, investigators said.

    Shortly after 6 p.m., Hummel was escorted into the state's death chamber in Huntsville. He was pronounced dead at 6:49 p.m., 13 minutes after he was injected with a lethal dose of pentobarbital, according to prison reports.

    "I truly regret killing my family," Hummel said on the gurney in his final statement. "I am thankful for all the thoughts and prayers for my family over the last few days. I love each and every one you."

    Hummel’s appeals — including a push last year to have the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office taken off his case because his defense attorney at trial had become a leader in the prosecutor’s office — had been denied before Wednesday.

    Last week, however, the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas sought to stop his execution because prison officials failed to let reporters witness a May execution for the first time in the history of the state's modern death penalty. Reporters for the Associated Press and the Huntsville Item, who attend every execution, were left waiting to be escorted from prison administrative offices across the street when Quinton Jones was killed. The same reporters were able to witness Hummel's execution Wednesday, Joseph Brown of the Huntsville newspaper, The Item, confirmed.

    The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has said excluding the onsite reporters was a mistake, and has assured that media will be allowed in the future to observe as the state wields its greatest power over life. The agency blamed new execution staff, a revised execution protocol and a lack of oversight, according to a TDCJ statement.

    “A culmination of factors caused the incident which was preventable and inexcusable,” the department said in its statement last week. “The agency has since taken steps to address it to include administrative action involving multiple employees and building in redundancies to ensure that a similar incident does not happen again.”

    Still, the ACLU of Texas had urged the agency's executive director to ask the governor to postpone Hummel’s execution by 30 days to further address the problem.

    “These events were of major concern to the media, the public, and the ACLU,” the letter stated. “TDCJ broke its own protocols and carried out an unconstitutional execution.”

    Nationwide, reporters have served as watchdogs in botched executions in states that struggle to find lethal injection drugs as capital punishment’s popularity wanes. And Texas media reports often provide detail excluded from agency accounts of executions — like prisoners describing a burning sensation after lethal drugs are injected in their veins.

    “Due to TDCJ’s failures, the public will never have a media account of the execution of Mr. Jones last month,” the ACLU of Texas wrote.

    Jeremy Desel, a prison spokesperson, said Tuesday that the agency’s leader, Bryan Collier, did not ask the governor to delay Hummel's execution.

    TDCJ said it had since enhanced staff training on execution processes and added an agency director to oversee them. The agency also said employees had been disciplined, but Desel said Tuesday he did not know details on the type of discipline or how many employees were punished.

    After the execution, Tarrant County District Attorney Sharen Wilson said in a statement that the death penalty should be reserved for the worst crimes.

    "John Hummel’s actions were unconscionable," she added.

    Hummel’s execution, originally set for last March, was the first in the state to be taken off the calendar because of the coronavirus pandemic. Texas has executed two people in the pandemic — Billy Wardlow last July and Jones last month. That’s an exceptionally low number for Texas, which leads the nation by far in executions. Aside from Hummel, four other men’s executions were halted because of public health concerns.

    So far, four other men are scheduled to be executed in Texas in 2021. Only one other execution in the nation is scheduled for 2021, in Nevada, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

    https://www.texastribune.org/2021/06...n-john-hummel/
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