Entries tagged with “Edward Busby”
May 12, 2026
Will a Person with Intellectual Disability Become Texas’ 600th Execution in the Modern Era?
On Friday, May 8, 2026, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit temporarily stayed the execution of Edward Busby, who had been scheduled to be executed in Texas on May 14, 2026. Mr. Busby is a person whom all experts agree has intellectual disability, and he is therefore legally ineligible for execution. Despite this, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has asked the United States Supreme Court to lift the stay, and if that…
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,Apr 27, 2020
Texas Court Issues Nation’s Seventh Coronavirus Stay of Execution
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has stayed the May 6, 2020 execution of Edward Busby (pictured) for sixty days. Busby’s was the nation’s seventh execution postponed in the United States because of the coronavirus and the…