Texas Planning New Execution Despite Supreme Court Ruling

Source: New York Times

By RALPH BLUMENTHAL and LINDA GREENHOUSE
Published: September 29, 2007

HOUSTON, Sept. 28 — A day after the United States Supreme Court halted an execution in Texas at the last minute, Texas officials made clear on Friday that they would nonetheless proceed with more executions in coming months, including one next week. Though several other states are halting lethal injections until it is clear whether they are constitutional, Texas is taking a different course, risking a confrontation with the court.

“The Supreme Court’s decision to stay convicted murderer Carlton Turner’s execution will not necessarily result in an abrupt halt to Texas executions,” said Jerry Strickland, a spokesman for Attorney General Greg Abbott of Texas. “State and federal courts will continue to address each scheduled execution on a case-by-case basis.”

Shortly before midnight on Thursday, the Supreme Court stayed the execution of Mr. Turner, who had been scheduled to become the 26th Texas inmate executed this year by lethal injection in Huntsville....

Several legal experts said the Supreme Court reprieve would be seen by most states as a signal to halt all executions until the court determined, probably some time next year, whether lethal injection was cruel and unusual punishment barred by the Eighth Amendment....

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of killing people. That's just how they roll in Texas.

Yaaa Thaankk !?!

before you kill em...maybe???:shrug:

eventually one playfully shoves the other causing him to fall onto a big red switch which activates the death mechanism. Kids of all ages will love it!

For the record, I'm against the death penalty, even in *'s case.

If they do they'll never pass China and they might even be passed up by Saudi Arabia and Iran.