[DP-Announce] No execution Tuesday -- Wed. & Thurs still on

[Rich Woodward]

Good news.  Larry Swearingen has received a reprieve.  Article below. 
 Unfortunately, the executions for Wed. and Thurs. are still 
scheduled.

Rich

AUSTIN - A federal appeals court has granted a last-minute reprieve 
to a Texas man facing execution in the murder of a Houston-area 
college student, his attorney said. 

Larry Swearingen was set to be executed Tuesday for a murder that 
several pathologists -- including the case's original medical 
examiner - now say he could not have committed.

He was convicted of the 1998 rape, abduction and murder of Melissa 
Trotter, a 19-year-old who was strangled and left in the woods.
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Richard Woodward
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