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Article: Texas killer set for lethal injection wins reprieve from Supreme Court
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- September 28, 2007
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) -- A man condemned for killing his parents
avoided the nation's busiest death chamber Thursday night when he
won a reprieve from the U.S. Supreme Court, which had already agreed
to review another state's lethal injection procedures.
Attorneys for Carlton Turner Jr., 28, had appealed to the high
court hoping that its planned review of lethal injection procedures
in Kentucky, the same process used in Texas, could keep him alive.
His case is being watched as an indicator of whether executions
in Texas could be halted until the court rules on the Kentucky case
next year.
In a brief order, the court said it had granted his stay of
execution but made no mention of its ...