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I'll turn to today's meeting of the Texas Criminal Justice Integrity Unit and other news next, but first let me mention an impending execution.  Late this afternoon the U.S. Supreme Court refused to issue a stay in the case of Greg Wright.  He is scheduled to be executed in less than an hour in Huntsville.The latest AP report is here, via the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.Wright's appeal, claiming innocence, was rejected by the Supreme Court less than an hour before he was scheduled to be taken to the Texas death chamber. Other federal courts had rejected similar appeals and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles also refused a clemency request for Wright on a 7-0 vote Wednesday."The truth doesn't matter," Wright told The Associated Press recently from a visiting cage outside death row, saying he was stunned at the outcome of his 1998 trial in Dallas...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 30, 2008 (boomark / email).