Court stops execution of Honduran
The state Court of Criminal Appeals has stopped today’s scheduled execution of a Honduran man convicted in the slaying of a clothing store manager.
Lawyers for Heliberto Chi, 28, had asked the court for a reprieve in light of a U.S. Supreme Court decision last week to review lethal injection procedures in Kentucky after two inmates there argued the process was unconstitutionally cruel. The injection procedures are the same in Texas.
The Court of Criminal Appeals, the state’s highest criminal court, gave prosecutors 30 days to address Chi’s contention that his execution would be unconstitutionally cruel.
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