The Supreme Court has granted a stay of execution for Cleve Foster

CNN ^ | 9/20/11 | CNN

[ColdOne]

Whole headline.... The Supreme Court has granted a stay of execution for Cleve Foster, who was to die tonight in Texas for a 2002 murder.

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[montag813]

Disgusting. Reverse racism is alive and well.

[GingisK]

Send a reply. Tell them that their message was garbled, and they should resend. That should take at least two days.

[dead]

If they electrocuted him, they would never be able to get the fried-spam-stink out of the chair.

He's gristley.

[KingKongCobra]

Summary of incident

Co-defendants
Ward, Shelton Aaro

On 2/14/2002, in Tarrant County, Texas, Foster and co-defendant Ward sexually assaulted and shot a 28 year old black female, resulting in her death. Foster and Ward then moved the body of the victim to a ditch where it was discovered by workers who were laying pipe.

[ToxicMich]

Mark

[freeangel]

Meanwhile, Troy Davis is getting a thumbs down after 20 years in GA. for shooting a cop.

[boop]

So does that mean no execution at all, or more “time” to review evidence or what?

[newzjunkey]

He is not contesting his guilt, of that there's no doubt.

From what I've read, the stay is based on a claim the double-murder's race (he's black) entered into the punishment phase, potentially tainting the jury's decision to vote for the death penalty.

I think we can agree, if this was a white perp the execution would proceed as scheduled.

[Krankor]

I don’t know. He ain’t fried yet

[newzjunkey]

So does that mean no execution at all, or more “time” to review evidence or what?

It means more time for appeals. He's not off the hook. He's not arguing guilt, just death.

Looks to me, worst case, a court might order a retrial on the punishment phase to see if a new jury would give him the death penalty too.

[BuckeyeTexan]

SCOTUS ping.

(Anyone on/off, freepmail me.)

[crazydad]

That is the lightest skinned brother I have ever seen? Oh well second Lightest skinned brotha. (Micheal Jackson)

[manc]

GA is going ahead with there’s

[SatinDoll]

He doesn’t look colored to me. My greatgrandmother was colored, and she didn’t look it either.

[SmithL]

a court might order a retrial on the punishment phase to see if a new jury would give him the death penalty too

I think this meets the definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result. This is Texas, after all.

[LukeL]

The George S Patton appraoch?

[GingisK]

The George S Patton approach?

Yep, I always liked it.