FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - A Texas death row inmate whose execution date scheduled for this week was halted because of a legal technicality has received a new execution date.
Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark says the prison agency has received court documents setting 37-year-old prisoner Tilon Carter’s lethal injection for May 16.
Carter had been set to die Tuesday for smothering an 89-year-old man during a robbery at the man’s Fort Worth home. But the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals issued an order last Friday halting the punishment because a state office that represents death row inmates was notified of the scheduled punishment a half-day late, a violation of state law.
Carter was condemned for the 2004 robbery and slaying of James Tomlin, a retired Bell Helicopter worker.
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