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| Texas Parole Board Rejects Clemency for Beazley |
| By CNN |
| Published: 05/29/2002 |
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A Texas pardons board has voted against clemency for Napoleon Beazley, whose scheduled Tuesday execution is controversial because he was a youth when he committed murder. Beazley's execution by lethal injection is scheduled for 7 p.m. EDT Tuesday. Gerald Garrett, chairman of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, told CNN his board voted 10-7 against commutation to a life sentence, and 13-4 against a temporary reprieve. The votes push Beazley one step closer to death by lethal injection, which is scheduled for tonight. The pardons board makes recommendations on executions to the governor, who can either accept or reject their advice. In the past 30 years, the board has voted for clemency only once, in 1998. Beazley, 26, shot John Luttig, 63, twice in the head in April 1994 as he and two friends tried to steal Luttig's Mercedes-Benz from his driveway. Beazley originally was scheduled to be executed last August, but about four hours before, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted a stay, although the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles at that time had voted 10-6 against clemency. His lawyers have argued that executing Beazley, who was 17 at the time of the murder, would violate the Eighth Amendment's provision against cruel and unusual punishment. They also argued that the execution of an inmate who was under 18 at the time of his crime would violate international treaties on civil and political rights. |
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