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    Perry Eugene Williams - Texas Death Row




    Summary of Offense:

    Perry Eugene Williams was convicted in the September 7, 2000 murder of Matthew Carter, a first-year Baylor College of Medicine student who was abducted and killed by Williams and three others while returning a video at a Houston video store.

    Williams was sentenced to death in Harris County in June 2002.

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    On June 11, 2008, Williams' direct appeal was denied by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.

    Opinion here:

    http://www.cca.courts.state.tx.us/OP...PINIONID=17012

    Williams was denied a subsequent writ of habeas corpus in today's Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' orders/opinions.

    Opinion here:

    http://www.cca.courts.state.tx.us/OP...PINIONID=20314

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    On September 18, 2013, Williams filed an appeal in the US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals over the apparent denial of his habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/cir.../ca5/13-70028/

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    Death-Row Challenge Is Premature, Judge Rules

    Thomas Whitaker, et al., versus Brad Livingston, et al.,

    Two death-row inmates cannot challenge the use of compounded drugs for lethal injection, a federal judge ruled, because they "do not know the means that Texas will select for their execution."

    Thomas Whitaker and Perry Williams sued two Texas Department of Criminal Justice directors, a senior warden at the TDCJ's Huntsville prison and unknown executioners in Federal Court.

    Their co-plaintiff, Michael Yowell, was executed on Oct. 9.

    Texas adopted lethal injection as a method of executing death-row inmates in 1977, according to the state department's website. The current protocol uses the drug pentobarbital.

    Whitaker, Williams and Yowell expressed concern with the state's acquisition of the drug from a compounding pharmacy when it ran out of the name-brand version. They argued that the compounded drug might cause them to suffer a cruel amount of pain, resulting in a violation of their rights under the U.S. Constitution.

    Whitaker was sentenced to death in March 2007 after his conviction for arranging the murder of his mother and brother so he could collect a $1 million inheritance. His father survived the shooting.

    Williams received a death sentence in June 2002 for shooting a man in the head during a robbery in Houston.

    A jury sentenced Yowell to death in 1999. Unlike Whitaker and Williams, he was the only plaintiff with a scheduled execution date.

    Yowell shot his father and strangled his mother before setting their house on fire in Lubbock, Texas, on May 19, 1998. His disabled grandmother later died from injuries sustained in the same fire.

    U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes denied Yowell a preliminary injunction shortly before the state carried out his sentence on Oct. 9.

    A three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit in New Orleans unanimously affirmed the ruling.

    "If the state were using a drug never before used or unheard of, whose efficacy or science was completely unknown, the case might be different," the panel wrote. "The state, however, will use a standard amount of pentobarbital for Yowell's execution. Plaintiffs argue that because the state has transitioned to using compounding pharmacies, there are known unknowns because of the possibility of contamination. That may be true, but plaintiffs must point to some hypothetical situation, based on science and fact, showing a likelihood of severe pain." (Emphasis in original.)

    "None of the examples in their brief shows any such possibility based on the known unknowns stemming from obtaining drugs from a compounding pharmacy," the panel noted.

    Last week, Hughes issued a one-page final dismissal of the remaining inmates' claims.

    "Because Thomas Whitaker and Perry Williams do not know the means that Texas will select for their execution, their claim of an injury from that unknown means is hypothetical," Hughes wrote. "Courts do not address issues that are not yet ripe."

    As of Dec. 9, neither Whitaker nor Williams has been added to the TDCJ's list of scheduled executions.

    http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/12/09/63578.htm
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    COA denied today by the 5th Circuit.

    http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions...13-70028.0.pdf

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    This is why I have a problem with "religion" (from the 5th Circuit Court opinion, link in post above) :

    "Williams’s mother testified that he was raised in a close-knit, religious family. She testified favorably regarding Williams’s relationship with his father, who was a truck driver and veteran. She also mentioned some of the family’s difficulties: she had cancer; her mother died of cancer; her sister was murdered; two of Williams’s cousins were murdered; and her father suffered a stroke."

    From a "religious" family : One has cancer, another has a death from cancer, a sister murdered, 2 (not 1 , but 2) cousins murdered, and a father suffers a stroke. Now add in a son who murders people among other "sin" crimes and (admits to) heavily abusing drugs.

    Hmm......I'm not sure what god they were praying to...but I'd surely ask for a refund!

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    Killer of medical student in Houston loses appeal

    A 33-year-old Houston man sent to death row for abducting and killing a medical student who was returning a movie to a video store near the Houston medical center 14 years ago has lost a federal court appeal.

    Attorneys for Perry Williams had argued to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that he had deficient legal help at his trial for the slaying of 22-year-old Matthew Carter.

    Williams testified at his trial that Carter begged for his life before he shot the victim in the head. Court documents show Williams contended the slaying was accidental as Carter tried to flee from the car. Prosecutors said the shooting was intentional.

    Evidence showed Williams and three accomplices split $40 they took from Carter.

    Williams doesn't yet have an execution date.

    http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/new...8d3d228fe.html
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    In today's orders, the United States Supreme Court declined to review Williams' petition for certiorari.

    Appeals exhausted. Ruling could result in an execution date.
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    Houston medical student's killer loses appeal

    The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to review an appeal from a 34-year-old Houston man sent to death row for abducting and killing a medical student who was returning a movie to a video store 14 years ago.

    Without comment, the high court Monday ruled in the case of Perry Williams. His lawyers had argued in lower courts he had deficient legal help at his trial for the slaying of 22-year-old Matthew Carter.

    Williams testified at his trial that Carter begged for his life before he shot the victim in the head near Houston's Texas Medical Center where Carter was a first-year student at Baylor College of Medicine. Court documents show Williams contended the September 2000 slaying was accidental.

    Evidence showed Williams and three accomplices split $40 taken from Carter.

    http://www.newschannel10.com/story/2...r-loses-appeal
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    Remanded by the 5th Circuit yesterday regarding LI protocol.

    http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions...13-20750.0.pdf
    Last edited by FFM; 06-23-2015 at 05:59 PM.

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