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 weighing his claim that prosecutors presented…
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 several patterns that show…
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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…