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Georgia death row inmate gets last-minute stay, for now, while an execution in Texas is on track
Texas plans to execute LeJames Norman after state courts rejected his bid for a stay in the 2005 killings of three people.
- On Wednesday, Texas officials are moving forward with the scheduled execution of LeJames Norman, while a Cobb County judge halted the separate execution of Stacey Ian Humphreys late Tuesday.
- After attempting to flee to Mexico, Norman was captured in Wisconsin following a 30-minute police chase. He was sentenced to death for the murders of three people in Edna, Texas.
- Stacey Ian Humphreys was convicted of the 2003 double murder of real estate agents in Powder Springs, Georgia, and had been scheduled to die at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison near Jackson.
- Superior Court Judge Tyler Browning stayed Humphreys' execution to allow consideration of a petition under the new Survivor Justice Act, which permits resentencing for those who tie their crimes to severe childhood abuse.
- Texas has carried out five executions this year while Georgia has performed none, as Humphreys' legal team contested his death sentence citing Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's argument that cases remain "caught in a web of procedural barriers.
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Georgia death row inmate gets a last-minute reprieve, while an execution in Texas is on track
A man convicted of a triple murder in his neighbor’s home in rural Texas is set to be executed. Meanwhile, a judge in Georgia has halted another execution scheduled for Wednesday. This would be the fifth execution in Texas this…
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Miami, U.S.A., Sept. 16, (EFE).- U.S. authorities plan to execute two prisoners this Wednesday on the same day, one in Texas and one in Georgia, bringing the number of executions in the country to 27 so far this year, 15 of them in Florida. Georgia plans to execute Stacey [...] The U.S. entry plans to execute two prisoners on the same day, one in Georgia and one in Texas was first published in HolaNews.
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