Yesterday the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stayed tonight's scheduled murder of Garcia Glen White. Mr. White's attorney, Houston's own Pat McCann, refused to give up while the CCA continued to deny his motions to stay the execution and for leave to file writs of habeas corpus and suspension.
Finally, on Tuesday the Court granted Mr. White's fourth application for a writ of habeas corpus. The work of a capital litigator is never finished until the drugs start to flow into his client's veins. Mr. McCann kept fighting - even when it looked its bleakest - and, in the end, he won (at least a temporary) reprieve for his client.
As Bum Phillips would say, Mr. McCann knocked on that door a few times before he kicked the son of a bitch in.
If I were ever in a fight for my life, Paddy McCann is one of people I would want to be fighting with me.
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Execution Watch: 1/29/2015
On Thursday night, the State of Texas is planning to kill...
ROBERT LADD. Condemned in the sexual assault and slaying of a Tyler woman during a burglary in 1996. He appealed his conviction and death sentence, saying prosecutors used illegal tactics to exclude minorities from the jury and presented insufficient evidence at trial. Mr. Ladd also challenged the judge's instruction to the jury that they had the option to convict him under the Texas law of parties.
See:
Ladd v. State, 3 SW3d 547 (Tex.Crim.App. 1999)
For more information on the background of Mr. Ladd's case, click here.
ROBERT LADD. Condemned in the sexual assault and slaying of a Tyler woman during a burglary in 1996. He appealed his conviction and death sentence, saying prosecutors used illegal tactics to exclude minorities from the jury and presented insufficient evidence at trial. Mr. Ladd also challenged the judge's instruction to the jury that they had the option to convict him under the Texas law of parties.
See:
Ladd v. State, 3 SW3d 547 (Tex.Crim.App. 1999)
For more information on the background of Mr. Ladd's case, click here.
RADIO SHOW PREVIEW
EXECUTION WATCH
Unless a stay is issued, we'll broadcast live:
Thursday, January 29, 6-7 PM Central Time
KPFT-FM Houston 90.1, HD 3 or online at:
http://executionwatch.org > Listen
Since KPFT is in the middle of fund drive I believe the broadcast will only be available online or via HD radio.
http://executionwatch.org > Listen
Since KPFT is in the middle of fund drive I believe the broadcast will only be available online or via HD radio.
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Execution Watch: 1/28/2015
On Wednesday night, the State of Texas will kill...
GARCIA WHITE. Sent to death row for the 1989 slayings of 16-year-old twin sisters with whom he had an argument while smoking crack cocaine at their home. Mr. White asserted in appeals that jury selection, jury instructions, his statement to police and the judge's punishment charge were all improper. During Mr. White's trial, Houston Police crime lab analysts testified that DNA from the crime scene matched his. But retest results, made public in 2004 by the prosecutor's office indicated a private lab was unable to duplicate the results.
For more background information on Mr. Whtie's case, click here.
For more background information on Mr. Whtie's case, click here.
RADIO SHOW PREVIEW
EXECUTION WATCH
Unless a stay is issued, we'll broadcast live:
Wednesday, January 28, 6-7 PM Central Time
KPFT-FM Houston 90.1, HD 3 or online at:
http://executionwatch.org > Listen
Since KPFT is in the middle of fund drive I believe the broadcast will only be available online or via HD radio.
http://executionwatch.org > Listen
Since KPFT is in the middle of fund drive I believe the broadcast will only be available online or via HD radio.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Execution Watch: 1/21/2015
On Wednesday night, the State of Texas will kill for the first time in 2015...
ARNOLD PRIETO. Convicted in the murder of three people, including his co-defendants' great-aunt and great-uncle, in a 1993 home robbery in San Antonio. Before Mr. Prieto's conviction, prosecutors offered him two 30-year terms in exchange for his testimony against a co-defendant. He declined.
For more background on Mr. Prieto's case, click here.
For more background on Mr. Prieto's case, click here.
RADIO SHOW PREVIEW
EXECUTION WATCH
Unless a stay is issued, we'll broadcast live:
Wednesday, January 21, 6-7 PM Central Time
KPFT-FM Houston 90.1, HD 3 or online at:
http://executionwatch.org > Listen
Since KPFT is in the middle of fund drive I believe the broadcast will only be available online or via HD radio.
http://executionwatch.org > Listen
Since KPFT is in the middle of fund drive I believe the broadcast will only be available online or via HD radio.
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