Entries tagged with “Edward Busby”

Jun 01, 2026

Supreme Court Roundup: Decisions Allow Jury Discrimination Claim to Proceed and Keep Protections for Intellectually Disabled in Place

In recent weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court issued deci­sions regard­ing two key types of claims that often appear in cap­i­tal cas­es: pros­e­cu­to­r­i­al mis­con­duct and intel­lec­tu­al dis­abil­i­ty. A bipar­ti­san group of con­ser­v­a­tive and lib­er­al jus­tices car­ried each deci­sion. The Court ruled in favor of Mississippi pris­on­er Terry Pitchford, allow­ing his jury dis­crim­i­na­tion claim to pro­ceed, as well as Florida pris­on­er Gary Whitton, based on a low­er court error in…

May 12, 2026

A Man With Intellectual Disability Was the 600th Person Executed in Texas

On May 14, 2026, Edward Busby became the 600th per­son exe­cut­ed in Texas in the last 50 years. A three-judge pan­el of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit had tem­porar­i­ly stayed his exe­cu­tion, but the U.S. Supreme Court lift­ed the stay, allow­ing the exe­cu­tion to pro­ceed. Mr. Busby is a per­son whom all experts agree has intel­lec­tu­al dis­abil­i­ty, and he should there­fore have been legal­ly inel­i­gi­ble for exe­cu­tion. Mr. Busby’s case is illustrative of…

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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…