TX Court Grants Execution Stay: The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals issued a stay of execution Friday for a cop killer, marking the eighth consecutive time the court withdrew, stayed or rescheduled an execution date. News7NG reports that Robert Jennings was scheduled to be executed on Sept. 14 for the 1988 murder of Houston police officer Elston Howard but the state appeals court, in a 5-4 decision, granted a stay with no explanation. A week before Jennings' execution was delayed, the court stayed the pending execution of Ronaldo Ruiz, also with little to no explanation. Texas' next scheduled execution is of Barney Fuller on Oct. 5. The state's last execution was carried out on April 6. There has only been one other time in the past 20 years that a gap of more than five months between executions in Texas has happened, which was between September 2007 and June 2008.
Woman who Killed Newborn has Sentence Commuted: A Connecticut woman who is serving an 18-year sentence for killing her baby shortly after its birth a decade ago has had her sentence commuted Wednesday by the state Board of Pardons and Paroles. David Owens of the Hartford Courant reports that Panna Krom, 26, killed her newborn daughter in 2006 when she was 17-years old by putting the baby in a toilet and repeatedly flushing it. She had hid the pregnancy from her parents and after the child was born, panicked that they would find out. She alleges she had no knowledge of the "safe haven" laws that allow people to surrender custody of newborns with no questions asked. Krom was initially charged with murder and risk of injury to a minor but pleaded guilty to manslaughter in a plea deal and received 18 years. Krom's attorney claims she has been a model prisoner and is a low risk to commit another crime. She will be released on Sept. 30.
Escaped Homicide Suspect Recaptured: A homicide suspect was recaptured Tuesday, four days after he broke the hinge off his handcuffs and escaped from a Las Vegas-area police station. The AP reports that Alonso Perez, 25, had been on the loose since Friday after breaking free from his handcuffs while alone in a police interview room. He was at the station being questioned in the Aug. 27 shooting death of Mohammed Robinson, 31, outside a McDonald's restaurant, allegedly following an angry exchange over Robinson's failure to hold a door open for a woman. He was apprehended Tuesday from a residence, reportedly without incident. Last week's escape is the second from a Las Vegas-area jail to occur this year. The last was of Ivan Mayoral-Lizarraga, who escaped in April and was at large for two weeks before being recaptured.
Woman who Killed Newborn has Sentence Commuted: A Connecticut woman who is serving an 18-year sentence for killing her baby shortly after its birth a decade ago has had her sentence commuted Wednesday by the state Board of Pardons and Paroles. David Owens of the Hartford Courant reports that Panna Krom, 26, killed her newborn daughter in 2006 when she was 17-years old by putting the baby in a toilet and repeatedly flushing it. She had hid the pregnancy from her parents and after the child was born, panicked that they would find out. She alleges she had no knowledge of the "safe haven" laws that allow people to surrender custody of newborns with no questions asked. Krom was initially charged with murder and risk of injury to a minor but pleaded guilty to manslaughter in a plea deal and received 18 years. Krom's attorney claims she has been a model prisoner and is a low risk to commit another crime. She will be released on Sept. 30.
Escaped Homicide Suspect Recaptured: A homicide suspect was recaptured Tuesday, four days after he broke the hinge off his handcuffs and escaped from a Las Vegas-area police station. The AP reports that Alonso Perez, 25, had been on the loose since Friday after breaking free from his handcuffs while alone in a police interview room. He was at the station being questioned in the Aug. 27 shooting death of Mohammed Robinson, 31, outside a McDonald's restaurant, allegedly following an angry exchange over Robinson's failure to hold a door open for a woman. He was apprehended Tuesday from a residence, reportedly without incident. Last week's escape is the second from a Las Vegas-area jail to occur this year. The last was of Ivan Mayoral-Lizarraga, who escaped in April and was at large for two weeks before being recaptured.
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