Terry Edwards: Texas: Bulletin: Execution delayed after his lawyers filed last-minute appeals to spare his life, saying he was not the trigger man and his case was tainted by prosecutorial misconduct."..." One of the main pieces of evidence was gunshot residue testing, which at trial was presented and used by prosecutors who said Terry Edwards fired the fatal shots. In court papers, lawyers for the death row inmate said the gunshot residue evidence was improperly interpreted and actually show that Edwards was not the shooter." Reporter John Herskovitz; Reuters; January 26, 2017

"The execution of a Texas death row inmate convicted of double murder was delayed on Thursday after lawyers filed last-minute appeals to spare his life, saying he was not the trigger man and his case was tainted by prosecutorial misconduct.Terry Edwards, 43, had been set to be put to death by lethal injection at the state's death chamber in Huntsville at 6 p.m. But the execution was put on hold after several motions citing what lawyers for Edwards said were faults in previous legal proceedings were filed at the U.S. Supreme Court. If the execution does go ahead, it would be the 540th in Texas since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, the most of any state. Edwards was convicted along with co-defendant Kirk Edwards, an older cousin, of the July 2002 murders of Dallas Subway sandwich shop employees Mickell Goodwin and Tommy Walker in a robbery. Kirk Edwards has a projected release date of July 2027, Texas Department of Criminal Justice online records showed. In an editorial posted online on Wednesday, the Dallas Morning News said the execution should be halted because there are too many unanswered questions in the case. "These questions do not paint Terry Edwards as innocent. But they do raise uncertainties as to whether the jury was misled when it determined he had pulled the trigger and deserved to die, it said. Lawyers for Texas have argued that new counsel for Edwards previously tried to halt the execution on similar grounds and his execution should go ahead as a result of a conviction and sentencing that were legal and proper. John Mills, an attorney for Edwards, said he has evidence indicating that Edwards was not the gunman. "Previous counsel has done virtually almost nothing to ensure that his case was investigated and that the powerful evidence undermining the reliability and the fairness of his conviction was brought to light," Mills said in an interview. One of the main pieces of evidence was gunshot residue testing, which at trial was presented and used by prosecutors who said Terry Edwards fired the fatal shots. In court papers, lawyers for the death row inmate said the gunshot residue evidence was improperly interpreted and actually show that Edwards was not the shooter."
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