All articles tagged with #stay of execution
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has halted the execution of Robert Roberson, a death row inmate claiming innocence in his daughter's murder, and has remanded his case to the trial court for further review based on new evidence and legal considerations.,
Jedidiah Murphy, a Jew on death row in Texas, has been granted a stay of execution one day before his scheduled lethal injection. Murphy was sentenced to death for the 2000 shooting of an 80-year-old woman during a carjacking. The stay was initially granted due to insufficient DNA evidence, but the Attorney General's Office filed a motion to vacate the stay. However, a federal appeals court upheld the stay until a similar DNA case is resolved. Murphy's attorneys have been unsuccessful in other attempts to spare him from the death penalty.
An Alpine Brown bear, JJ4, who killed a jogger in Italy has been captured and granted a stay of execution after a court approved a petition by a bear conservation group. The bear had recently given birth to three cubs and her aggressive act may have been linked to a perceived threat against her cubs. The governor has until May 11 to appeal the decision. The bear was captured in a trap filled with fruit and taken to an animal care facility near Trento.