Entries tagged with “Tracy Beatty”
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,Nov 09, 2022
Texas Executes Mentally Ill Man After Denying Him Access to Mental Health Testing
Texas executed Tracy Beatty (pictured) on November 9, 2022, after the United States Supreme Court declined to review his challenge to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s refusal to unhandcuff the mentally ill and brain damaged death-row prisoner so that defense mental health experts could conduct mental health testing his lawyers argued was necessary in seeking clemency and in attempting to demonstrate his mental incompetency. The Court, without comment or any noted dissent, denied…
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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…
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,Mar 27, 2020
Coronavirus Pandemic Halts Executions, Perhaps for the Foreseeable Future
The public health crisis from the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has halted executions in the United States and, legal experts say, is likely to continue to do for the foreseeable future. With nine of the eleven serious death warrants between March 15 and June 30, 2020 scheduled in Texas, the decisions by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (TCCA) to issue 60-day stays for the two prisoners with March execution dates suggests that other stays are likely to follow. Citing “the current health…
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,Mar 19, 2020
News Brief — Texas Court Stays Second Execution As a Result of Coronavirus Health Crisis
NEWS (3/19/20): Texas — The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has for a second time delayed an impending execution because of the coronavirus health crisis. On March 19, the court issued a 60-day stay of execution to Tracy Beatty, whom the state had scheduled for execution on March 25. The court wrote: “We have determined that the execution should be stayed at the present time in light of the current health crisis and the enormous resources needed to address that emergency.” The stay will expire…