AP reports that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has stayed the execution of murderer Heliberto Chi, which had been scheduled for Wednesday.

We will have to see how this shakes out over the next few weeks. It is possible that there will be a de facto moratorium until the Supreme Court decides Baze v. Rees. There is substantial reason to believe that moratoriums kill innocent people. See Dale O. Cloninger & Roberto Marchesini, Execution Moratoriums, Commutations and Deterrence: the case of Illinois, Applied Economics, vol. 38, no. 9, pp. 967-973 (2006).