John Moritz reports, "Man has execution date as high court reviews method," in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Despite the informal nationwide moratorium on executions while the U.S. Supreme Court considers the constitutionality of lethal injection, a Texas Death Row inmate has an execution date set for next month, and no appeals on his behalf are pending before the courts and no clemency application has been filed with the Board of Pardons and Paroles.
Karl Eugene Chamberlain, condemned for the 1991 rape and murder of a woman who lived in the same apartment complex as he, is scheduled to die Feb. 21 in Huntsville. A spokeswoman for Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins said the prosecutor's office will ask that the date be set aside if no one files an appeal on the inmate's behalf.
"This office has made the decision not to go forward with any executions [of inmates from Dallas County] until the Supreme Court makes its decision," spokeswoman Jamille Bradfield said. "So if Mr. Chamberlain's date arrives before the ruling comes down, we will withdraw our application for execution."
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