Nation IN BRIEF : TEXAS : Stay of Execution for Henry Lee Lucas
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Henry Lee Lucas, the one-eyed drifter who once claimed to have killed hundreds of people, got a reprieve less than 10 hours before he was to be executed for the 1979 murder of a hitchhiker. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted the stay for the 58-year-old Lucas. The court said the prosecution had suppressed evidence. Lucas was convicted in 1985 and sentenced to die for strangling a woman, who was never identified. At one time, he confessed to nearly 600 slayings but recanted.
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