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| Texas Parole Board Refuses Inmate's Appeal |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 03/12/2003 |
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The Texas parole board refused Monday to consider a last-ditch appeal from a death row inmate claiming ineffective counsel, saying his paperwork was filed a week late. Delma Banks faces execution by injection Wednesday for killing a teenager in 1980. He could become the 300th inmate executed in Texas since the state resumed capital punishment in 1982. Attorneys for Banks filed the petition 15 days before the scheduled punishment. The state Board of Pardons and Paroles requires paperwork to be filed no later than within 21 days of execution. 'Our position is their petition was submitted well beyond our deadline and (Banks) is not being considered,' board chairman Gerald Garrett said. George Kendall, Banks' attorney, said he has asked the board to reconsider. Banks also has appeals pending with the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court. Banks argued that his court-appointed trial attorney didn't present adequate evidence to keep him off death row. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said there was other evidence to support the jury's decision. Defense attorneys also say Banks was the victim of unfair prosecution for the slaying of a Texarkana-area youth, Richard Wayne Whitehead, 16. Larry Whitehead, the father of the victim, said the attention the case has been getting is painful. 'All the attention and all the focus is on Banks right now and how much of a raw deal he's getting. Yet he's lived 23 years longer than my son lived. Our son got the raw deal,' Whitehead said. The board also rejected an appeal by Bobby Glen Cook, 41, who faces execution Tuesday for the 1993 shooting death and robbery of an east Texas fisherman. |
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