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| Texas Court Halts Execution |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 11/20/2002 |
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A Texas appeals court halted this week's scheduled execution of a convicted killer after his attorneys argued he is mentally retarded. James Lee Clark, 34, was scheduled to die by injection Thursday for the 1993 rape, robbery and murder of a 17-year-old Denton high school student. Another teenager was killed in the same incident. In a brief order, the Texas Court of Appeals said Clark's lawyers had raised seven issues in their arguments to stop the execution. Six were dismissed, but the last one invoked a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling barring execution of the mentally retarded. The Texas court agreed to review that claim. The decision delays Clark's execution indefinitely. Clark was on parole after serving less than a year of a 10-year term for burglary when he was arrested for the rape and fatal shooting of Catherine Crews, 17, and the death of her companion, Jesus Gilberto Garza, 16. Both were shot in the head with a shotgun. |
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