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| Texas Death Row Inmate Wins Reprieve |
| By KWTX News |
| Published: 02/27/2006 |
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A Denver man facing execution last week in Texas for the 1989 slaying of a Fort Worth restaurant manager has won a reprieve. A judge in Fort Worth ruled that 43-year-old Steven Kenneth Staley is incompetent to be executed at this time. Staley was condemned over the killing during a botched robbery. The victim was 35-year-old Robert Read. He was taken hostage following a robbery at a Steak and Ale. A judge canceled Staley's scheduled execution until further notice after psychologists for both the inmate and prosecutors determined he's incompetent. Defense attorney Jack Strickland says that Staley, since 1991 when he first was sent to death row, been hospitalized now 16 or 17 times because he's psychotic. Prosecutor Chuck Mallon says officials are considering filing a motion to medicate Staley by force. |
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