Judge refused to delay execution and returned home to meet repairman
A Texan judge found herself on trial yesterday after refusing to break off dealing with a repairman at her home and return to her courthouse to hear a stay of execution.
The lawyer of Michael Wayne Richard, a convicted murderer and rapist, had telephoned the courthouse in Austin, asking if it could be kept open for a few extra minutes on 25 September 2005, because a computer problem had caused a delay in filing paperwork for a last-ditch appeal.
Judge Sharon Keller of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals – who had popped home to meet a repairman – refused, declaring: "We close at 5pm." Three-and-a-half hours later, Richard was killed by lethal injection.
Obviously it is a question of priorities. We cannot let a death row last minute appeal interfere with a judge's prior engagement to meet a repairman...
1 comment:
Wait a moment- she popped home to meet a repairman. THEN she was surely still on state pay. Fuck her and all what sail in her.
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