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Chuck Lindell continues his series with a sixth item on the Austin American-Statesman Focal Point blog.  It's titled, "Why the last-minute appeal?"Twenty years after Michael Richard was convicted of raping and killing a Hockley mother of seven, his lawyers were scrambling to file an appeal with his execution only hours away. Why the last-minute rush?On the morning of Sept. 25, 2007 ? execution day for Richard ? the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would determine whether lethal injection was cruel and unusual punishment. Figuring (correctly, it turns out) that executions would halt until the high court ruled, Richard?s lawyers with the Texas Defender Service began drafting a stay of execution request ? dropping a longshot appeal that claimed Richard should not be executed because he was mentally disabled...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 02, 2009 (boomark / email).