Entries tagged with “Edward Busby”
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…