Oct. 13
TEXAS---- Reprieve Granted For Texas Prisoner Facing Execution
The state's highest criminal appeals court has blocked the scheduled execution
this week of a 40-year-old man convicted of fatally shooting a 5-year-old boy
sleeping with his mother at a Corpus Christi apartment 20 years ago.
Larry Hatten had ordered no appeals be filed to stop his scheduled Wednesday
evening lethal injection in Huntsville for the slaying of Isaac Jackson.
But the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has given him a reprieve to resolve a
1997 filing with his trial court in Nueces County. The judges said Monday in a
3-page ruling that the filing never was decided by the trial court and was
never properly forwarded to the appeals court.
The appeals court has given the trial court 6 months to resolve the claims in
the in filing.
(source: Associated Press)
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Executions under Rick Perry, 2001-present-----278
Executions in Texas: Dec. 7, 1982-present----517
Perry #--------scheduled execution date-----name---------Tx. #
279------------Oct. 28------------------Miguel Paredes--------518
280------------Jan. 14------------------Rodney Reed-----------519
281------------Jan. 15------------------Richard Vasquez-------520
282------------Jan. 21-------------------Arnold Prieto--------521
283------------Jan. 28-------------------Garcia White---------522
284------------Feb. 4--------------------Donald Newbury-------523
285------------Feb. 10-------------------Les Bower, Jr.-------524
286------------Mar. 11-------------------Manuel Vasquez-------525
287------------Mar. 18-------------------Randall Mays---------526
(sources: TDCJ & Rick Halperin)
FLORIDA:
Prosecutors seeking death penalty for man accused of killing 1-year-old Tampa
boy
Hillsborough County prosecutors will seek the death penalty against Austin
Hamilton, who is accused of killing his girlfriend's 1-year-old son in August,
officials said Monday.
Hamilton, 24, has pleaded not guilty 1st-degree murder and aggravated child
abuse charges. But Tampa police detectives said that shortly after he was
detained, Hamilton admitted beating Sincere Williams repeatedly with a belt and
dropping him on his head. Sincere died that night at St. Joseph's Hospital.
A medical examiner's report concluded that Sincere had succumbed to blunt-force
trauma to the lower abdomen.
According to a police report, Hamilton told detectives he "lost control" when,
in the middle of changing the child's diaper, Sincere began to urinate all over
their motel room. After hitting the boy's backside at least 10 times with the
belt, Hamilton picked him up and dropped him, the report said.
Following her son's death, Tiffany Williams said she hoped Hamilton would get
the death penalty.
(source: Tampa Bay Times)
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