Kenneth Wayne Morris won a reprieve from a federal...

Kenneth Wayne Morris won a reprieve from a federal appeals court that spared him from a trip to the Texas death chamber about two hours before he could have been executed today for the fatal shooting of a Houston man. The execution of Morris, 32, was stopped with an order from 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. In its order, the appeals court gave Morris' lawyers permission to file additional legal actions in a lower federal court based on a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year that barred execution of mentally retarded people. Morris was identified as the gunman that on May 1, 1991 broke into the home of James Moody Adams, 63.