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Texas Commutes Death Sentence, As Execution Carried Out In Florida; Alabama Postpones |
By npr.org- Scott Neuman |
Published: 02/23/2018 |
Three executions were scheduled. Two were called off. If the death sentences in Alabama, Texas and Florida had all gone ahead on Thursday night as originally planned, it would have marked the first time in eight years that three convicted killers were executed on the same day. However, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott granted clemency to Thomas Whitaker, 38, commuting his sentence to life in prison. And late Thursday, the execution in Alabama of Doyle Lee Hamm was postponed after last minute legal wrangling pushed late into the evening. Only the execution of Florida inmate Eric Scott Branch, 47, who was convicted of raping and killing a college student decades ago, was carried out. Read More. |
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