{"id":23389,"date":"2020-07-08T21:32:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/texas-death-row-inmate-to-be-first-execution-since-coronavirus-delay\/"},"modified":"2020-07-08T21:32:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T18:32:00","slug":"texas-death-row-inmate-to-be-first-execution-since-coronavirus-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/texas-death-row-inmate-to-be-first-execution-since-coronavirus-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"#Texas death row inmate to be first execution since coronavirus delay"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Texas death row inmate to be first execution since coronavirus delay<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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July 8, 2020 |<\/span> 2:32pm <\/p>\n

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\n Billy Joe Wardlow<\/span>
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\n A Texas inmate convicted of fatally shooting an elderly man nearly three decades ago is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection Wednesday \u2014 the first execution in the Lone Star State following a five-month delay during the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

Billy Joe Wardlow, 45, killed Carl Cole, 82, during a June 1993 robbery at his home in Cason, about 130 miles east of Dallas in the East Texas Pineywoods, near the Louisiana and Arkansas borders.<\/p>\n

Wardlow\u2019s attorneys, joined by neuroscientists, have argued that at the time of the crime, Wardlow\u2019s 18-year-old brain wasn\u2019t fully developed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe science<\/a> really supports precluding the death penalty for anyone under 21 because brain development is still happ<\/a>ening,\u201d said attorney Richard Burr.<\/p>\n

In a letter to the parole board, Wardlow asked for his execution to be delayed for 330 days, but it was denied Monday in a 6-1 vote, The Texas Tribune reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cI came to death row a scared boy who made poor choices; I will leave death row a man that others admire because I weathered the storms of life with the help of people that loved me,\u201d he wrote. \u201cWe should all be so fortunate.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Monday, the parole board denied the request in a 6-1 vote.<\/p>\n

But prosecutors argued that \u201cWardlow senselessly executed elderly Carl Cole to steal his truck, something that could have been taken without violence because the keys were in it,\u201d according to a petition filed with the Supreme Court by the Texas attorney general<\/a>\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

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The gurney in Huntsville, Texas, where Texas\u2019 condemned are strapped down to receive a lethal dose of drugs.<\/span>AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He is set to be put to death at 6 p.m. at the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville.<\/p>\n

If the execution is carried out as planned, it would be the first in Texas since Feb. 6.<\/p>\n

Missouri was the first state in the U.S. to carry out an execution following coronavirus shutdowns, on May 19. No other executions have taken place in the US since then.<\/p>\n

Wardlow was initially scheduled to be executed on April 29, but that date was moved to July 8 at the request of Morris County District Attorney Steve Cowan, who cited the statewide disaster declaration over the virus.<\/p>\n

Texas has seen a surge in coronavirus cases in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

With Post wires<\/em>\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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