Entries tagged with “Carlos Trevino”
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,Sep 16, 2020
News Brief — COVID-19 Halts Another State Execution
NEWS (9/15/20) — Texas: A Bexar County trial court judge has issued an order withdrawing the death warrant that had scheduled Carlos Trevino’s execution for September 30, 2020. The court cited “the current COVID-19 conditions in Texas” as the grounds for postponement. The order was the third time in 2020 that Trevino’s execution had been rescheduled. His execution was initially scheduled for March 11, 2020, but was postponed until June 3. Shortly thereafter, Governor Greg Abbott declared a…
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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 sixth in Texas. The stay, issued on April 27, marked the 26th execution date in the first half of 2020 to be halted. By contrast, five executions have been carried out with three others — two in Texas and one in Missouri — still pending before the end of June. The court’s…