The Austin American-Statesman has this report. The CCA opinions are available here.
AP reports that Cathy Lynn Henderson has been granted a stay of execution by the Court of Criminal Appeals, today. The San Antonio Express-News website has this AP filing.
Condemned inmate Cathy Lynn Henderson won a reprieve Monday from a divided Texas Court of Criminal Appeals that will keep her from being executed this week for the slaying of a 3-month-old child in her care.
Henderson, 50, was scheduled to be executed Wednesdasy for the death of Brandon Baugh, whose skull was bashed in while she was babysitting him. His body was buried in a wine cooler box as she fled the state more than 13 years ago.
Henderson would have been the 16th inmate executed this year in the nation's busiest capital punishment state, where 394 prisoners have been given lethal injection since 1982, but only the fourth woman. Nationally, she would have been just the 12th woman among the 1,079 convicted killers executed since the U.S. Supreme Court in 1976 allowed capital punishment to resume.
Earlier coverage of the Henderson case is here and here.
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