US top court stays Texas death row inmate execution
The US Supreme Court gave a reprieve yesterday to a Texas death row inmate in a case tinged by racial controversy, granting a stay more than 90 minutes after the scheduled time of execution.
The high court issued the stay for Duane Buck, 48, who had been scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection at 6pm local time in Huntsville, Texas, for a pair of shotgun murders in 1995 in Houston.
Lawyers for Buck, who is black, appealed to the Supreme Court and said he had been unfairly sentenced because a psychologist testified that black men were more likely than other races to be repeat offenders after their release from prison.
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