Texas execution halted over claims judge was anti-Semitic

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


By JUAN A. LOZANO, ASSOCIATED PRESS HOUSTON — Oct 4, 2019, 6:59 PM ET



A Jewish death row inmate who was part of the "Texas 7" gang of escaped prisoners and faced execution in less than a week won a reprieve on Friday after claiming the former judge at his trial was anti-Semitic and frequently used racial slurs.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted a stay of execution for Randy Halprin, who had been scheduled to receive a lethal injection on Oct. 10. The appeals court ordered Halprin's case be sent back to the Dallas County court that convicted him, so it can review his claims that his trial judge was biased against him because he is Jewish.

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"Today's decision to stay Randy Halprin's scheduled execution is a signal that bigotry and bias are unacceptable in the criminal justice system," Tivon Schardl, one of Halprin's attorneys, said in a statement.

Halprin was among the inmates who escaped from a South Texas prison in December 2000 and then committed numerous robberies, including the one in which they shot 29-year-old Irving police officer Aubrey Hawkins 11 times, killing him. .



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[Coventina]

1. Always and forever against the DP.

[Mosby]

2. The guy tortured a baby, fuck him.

Was the judge an antisemite? Yes.

Give me a gun and I'll kill the pos myself.

[Coventina]

3. Being against the DP doesn't mean I condone horrible behavior.

The DP isn't about what perpetrators do.
It's political theatre, enhancing the power of the state.

[Mosby]

4. I have been against the dp for a long time

This very case changed my mind.

This pos has a huge cadre of supporters, including his new wife. They have scrubbed the internet to remove info about his original crime.

He broke all the arms and legs of a 16mo boy, damaged his eyes and eardrums. He is a sociopath, and has spent his time in prison manipulating every person he can, including people in the Jewish community.

[Coventina]

5. My opposition to the DP has nothing to do with individuals.

There are many, many people I personally want dead.

[JonLP24]

7. The DP has way too many disparities

I'm against the DP in all cases but if you have a DP do it right.

https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/facts-and-research/dpic-reports/in-depth/racial-disparities-in-federal-death-penalty-prosecutions-1988-1994

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Ray Krone (born January 19, 1957) is an American who was wrongfully convicted of murder. He was the 100th inmate exonerated from death row since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.[1]

Krone was born and raised in Dover Township, York County, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Dover Area High School in 1974.[2][3]

He was labeled the "Snaggletooth Killer" (a feature which has since been corrected) and spent 10 years in prison, including two years on death row, after being found guilty of killing a Phoenix, Arizona, bartender in 1991.[4] 35-year-old Kim Ancona was found dead in a bar where Krone often played darts. The 1992 and 1996 convictions hinged on experts whose questionable testimony included claiming an impression of Krone's teeth matched bite marks found on the victim's body matched his. On April 8, 2002, Krone was released from prison after DNA evidence proved not only that he did not murder the victim, but identified the real killer, Kenneth Phillips, a repeatedly violent sexual offender. Copious crime scene evidence and interviews with other sources should have identified Phillips, but were ignored by the police and the prosecution's purported experts.[1] In 2005, Krone received a settlement of $1.4 million from Maricopa County, and $3 million from the city of Phoenix.[5]

Since Krone's release, he has become an activist working for the abolition of the death penalty, and is Director of Membership and Training for Witness to Innocence. In February 2005, he was featured in episodes 13 and 14 of the third season of the reality television show Extreme Makeover. His story is detailed in Jingle Jangle: The Perfect Crime Turned Inside Out, written by his cousin, Jim Rix, who was instrumental in getting him out of prison.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Krone

[LeftInTX]

12. Although I don't support the death penalty

I support the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals decision here. However, this is a procedural decision.

This guy is guilty...This guy is not someone who will be taken up by the Innocence Project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Seven

https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/death_row/dr_info/halprinrandy.html

He escaped prison with a gang and they went on a shooting spree. He is guilty of murder by "The Law of Parties"
Whether you agree with Law of Parties or not, this guy was there when they robbed Oshman's on Christmas Eve and shot a cop. Halprin was even injured at the scene.

Unless the death penalty and/or law of parties is absolved this guy will get it again.

He had a racist judge, but this guy is not innocent.

I would be more concerned about other convictions in this judge's courtroom.

[JonLP24]

13. I wasn't arguing he was innocent

whether I agree with Law of Parties or I really don't support the Death penalty for it especially if one did not pull the trigger. I don't know if he did or not but from what I read he was a bad criminal that the gang talked of killing him and they said they would if he talked to some person before the cops busted them. Assata Shakur was convicted under a similar law though I do think she is innocent as she was shot with her hands up.

I feel it is wrong to take a life for any reason. Plus the death penalty puts the innocent at risk.

I wouldn't support the death penalty just because this guy guilty. The disparities are too much of a problem for me.

[Devil Child]

16. Hang him high n/t

[Coventina]

20. Please proceed, and see where that gets you. n/t

[Devil Child]

22. Thanks for the support Coventina and I'll keep your words in mind as I proceed to proceed

Execution strikes me as the best outcome for Mr. Halprin's crimes.

[MicaelS]

19. The DP should always be a possible punishment...

For the worst of the worst. Especially habitual criminals like this one.

[Coventina]

21. As I've said umpteen times: the DP is not about what a criminal does.

The DP is political theatre designed to enhance the power of the state.

[sir pball]

25. If you could ensure 100% accuracy, sure. I have no *moral* compunction against it.

But Justice cannot be 100% accurate so I'm generally against it.

That said, fuck this guy. Feed him to a tiger.

[sir pball]

23. I'm against it for practical reasons. Justice is not 100% accurate.

Better a thousand guilty men and all that. And on the level of the State, no, it should not be an option.

That being said, in this case, my personal feelings...I have a paramedic friend who can get me blood bags, I can make him last two weeks.

[Behind the Aegis]

8. Good.

[Botany]

9. He was in prison for beating up a baby, escaped from prison, murdered a cop, and he is still alive..

... 19 years after killing the cop.

[marble falls]

10. Even finding the poster child for the death penalty shows in itself how the death penalty is not ...

fairly applied.

This guy didn't kill anyone. Not the kid or the cop. The punishment is too much with what he actually did.

[LisaL]

14. Here is what he did to the child.

"Halprin was a victim of child abuse who went on to be a child abuser. While baby-sitting for a friend he met at a homeless shelter, he broke a 16-month-old's arms and legs, fractured his skull and beat his face until one eye filled with blood. He pleaded guilty to injury to a child and was serving a 30-year sentence when he escaped Dec. 13, 2000, from the Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas."

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2019/06/11/jewish-texas-7-member-says-judge-who-sent-him-to-death-row-is-anti-semitic-asks-for-new-trial/

[marble falls]

15. He didn't kill the kid. Its a life for a life. Sentence him to enough years but he killed no one...

what other crimes would death be suitable where the crime killed no one?

[LisaL]

17. Well, he didn't get the death penalty for the beating of a child.

[marble falls]

28. You're right, he got it for not killing the cop.

[sir pball]

24. Personally? Severe child molestation, like, of a baby.

I'm actually empathic as hell, but the flip side of that coin is while I feel incredibly strongly for the downtrodden, the truly evil (like this POS) evoke the exact opposite response - they literally shut off all concern or feeling in me. I get very cold, vindictive, and unpleasant.

As in, I'd personally feed him into a plastic shredder, feet first, a la Hussein.

[marble falls]

29. So you can see how emotional responses to specific crimes can make the equitable use ...

of the death penalty problematic. As well as unconstitutional. We don't feed anyone to shredders for any crime.

[JonLP24]

18. He wasn't charged with the death penalty for that

I really don't support the death penalty for something he was already sentenced the 30 years for.

[BlueIdaho]

11. Who judges the judges?

We need to wake up and start pushing back against those who use their power on the bench to punish those they see as their enemies - especially now that Fatso is Building a network of right wing kangaroo courts.

[secondwind]

26. Frankly, I think the death penalty is too easy.

I think they should rot in jail for decades.

[marble falls]

30. And I think life without parole is a chicken shit form of the death penalty.

[DFW]

27. I'm against the Death Penalty in principle

Although there always a few candidates for exceptions.

A friend of mine in Dallas wrote a sci-fi novel about the subject, where a genius test tube baby grew up and invented a portable, fool-proof (except for him) lie detector, and the book centered in large part about how it affected the implementation of the death penalty, which, of course, was never again applied to an innocent. Diplomacy was rather drastically altered, too. Imagine both Trump and Kim having fool-proof lie detectors showing both of them spending an hour together and not one true sentence being uttered by either one, and both of them knowing it in real time!