Jamaal Howard’s lawyers urged halt, citing risk of another failed execution, but court denied request Texas on Wednesday is scheduled to carry out the first execution in the US after the the botched lethal injection of Christa Pike in Tennessee last week. Lawyers for Jamaal Howard, a Texas man on death row for capital murder, sought to halt the execution, arguing there are similar risks as in the case of Pike, but a Texas court denied the stay request on Wednesday. Continue reading...
Originally reported by The Guardian US by Uwa Ede-Osifo. Read the full story at the source.
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