The execution of Edward Green III was carried out shortly...

The execution of Edward Green III was carried out shortly after 8 p.m. at the Huntsville "Walls" Unit after nearly a 2-hour delay pending a decision from the U.S. Supreme Court. Attorneys for Green had hoped discrepancies by the Houston Crime Lab would deem a stay of execution. His victims were Edward Perry Haden, 72, and 63-year-old Helen O'Sullivan, who he gunned down in Houston in 1992. Green was pronounced dead at 8:21 p.m. Green's' lawyers, 2 state senators from Harris County and the Houston police chief wanted executions stopped for all county cases until authorities can review some 280 recently discovered boxes of evidence that had been mislabeled and improperly stored. Attorneys said the boxes could contain something relevant to Green's double murder case, but prosecutors said all evidence involving Green had been accounted for. Much of the controversy surrounding the police lab is on reliability of DNA testing procedures. No DNA evidence was used in Green's case; his attorneys had questioned the reliability of ballistics evidence presented at his trial. Green becomes the 14th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in exas and the 46th in the USA.