HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) – The Latest on the scheduled execution of Texas inmate Terry Edwards (all times local):
4:30 p.m.
A 43-year-old convicted killer has been moved to a small cell a few steps from the Texas death chamber where he’s awaiting the outcome of federal court appeals his attorneys have filed to try to put off his lethal injection.
Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark says inmate Terry Edwards appears apprehensive following his transfer about 45 miles Thursday afternoon from the East Texas prison that houses death row to another prison in downtown Huntsville where executions are carried out.
The death warrant specifies Edwards can be executed after 6 p.m. for a 2002 robbery of a Dallas-area Subway sandwich shop where two people were shot and killed. State officials will hold off on the punishment until all appeals are resolved. The warrant expires at midnight.
At least two appeals are at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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12:10 a.m.
Attorneys for 43-year-old Texas death row inmate Terry Edwards are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to stop his scheduled lethal injection for a fatal robbery more than 14 years ago at a Dallas-area Subway sandwich shop.
Evidence showed Edwards worked at the restaurant but was fired a few weeks earlier for stealing. An employee and the store manager were killed in the $3,000 holdup.
One appeal raises questions about the competence of his attorney in earlier stages of his appeal. Another appeal at the Supreme Court seeks testing of pentobarbital Texas uses for lethal injections to ensure its potency.
The 43-year-old Edwards is scheduled to be put to death on Thursday evening. He would be the second prisoner executed this year in Texas and the third nationally.