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  • High court blocks execution of killer who chanted rock lyrics

    07/07/2004 5:00:27 PM PDT · by Paleo Conservative · 38 replies · 2,927+ views
    Associated Press via the Corpus Christi Caller Times ^ | July 7, 2004 | MICHAEL GRACZYK, Associated Press Writer
    HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - A Texas death row inmate avoided execution when the U.S. Supreme Court blocked his lethal injection that had been scheduled for Wednesday evening. Troy Kunkle, 38, was set to die for fatally shooting a Corpus Christi man during a robbery nearly 20 years ago when Kunkle was an 18-year-old high school student in San Antonio. The court, in a brief order delivered Wednesday morning, halted the punishment indefinitely. The reprieve came early enough in the day so Kunkle never was moved from death row at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit near Livingston. Executions...