TEXAS, USA. DEATH ROW APPEAL DENIED
the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals voted 5-4 to lift a stay of execution it issued on May 15 for Derrick S. O'Brien. O'Brien had been scheduled to die May 16; a new execution date was to be set at a hearing in July.
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the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals voted 5-4 to lift a stay of execution it issued on May 15 for Derrick S. O'Brien. O'Brien had been scheduled to die May 16; a new execution date was to be set at a hearing in July.
Four of the five judges who voted to lift the stay said in a concurring opinion that O'Brien did not offer evidence that the drugs used by the state could cause a painful death.
O'Brien, 31, was sentenced to death for the 1993 torture slayings of two Houston teenage girls.
Four of the five judges who voted to lift the stay said in a concurring opinion that O'Brien did not offer evidence that the drugs used by the state could cause a painful death.
O'Brien, 31, was sentenced to death for the 1993 torture slayings of two Houston teenage girls.
— SOURCES
- (Sources: AP, 17/05/2006)
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