Hiatus Possible for Death Penalty in Texas
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) › September 29, 2007
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HOUSTON (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to give a Texas death row inmate a reprieve shortly after it agreed to consider the legality of lethal injections could mean a hiatus for the nation's busiest death chamber.
The court spared Carlton Turner Jr. late Thursday after his lawyers raised arguments that mirrored a Kentucky case, in which two condemned inmates contended the lethal injection procedure was unconstitutionally cruel.See the full content of this document
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Hiatus Possible for Death Penalty in Texas
"I think we're headed toward a moratorium, at least until the Supreme Court resolves the Kentucky case," University of Texas law professor Jordan Stei...
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