U.S. Supreme Court Stops Texas Execution by Lethal Injection
The U.S Supreme Court Thursday granted Carlton Turner, Jr.’s request for stay of execution while it reviews the constitutionality of lethal injection procedures. The Dallas County, Texas Trial Court and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals earlier rejected Turner’s request for a stay.
Turner was scheduled to be executed Thursday as early as four hours prior to the Court’s decision for killing his adoptive parents in 1998. The Court’s decison came less than two hours before the expiration of Turner’s death warrant and two days after the Court decided to review an appeal from Kentucky inmates who claim that the lethal injection three-drug mixture constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. On the day the Court agreed to review the appeal from Kentucky, Texas executed Michael Richard by injection.
Also on Thursday, Alabama’s governor temporarily halted an execution to allow the state to review its lethal injection methods.
Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN2743672120070928?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews
