SELECT distinct(d.iddocumento), d.* from documenti d JOIN destinazionidocumenti dd ON (d.iddocumento = dd.iddocumento) WHERE d.idtipodocumento = 1 AND d.idlanguage = 7 AND d.status = 3 ORDER BY d.datains DESC, d.rilevanza DESC LIMIT 6 SELECT distinct(d.iddocumento), d.* from documenti d JOIN destinazionidocumenti dd ON (d.iddocumento = dd.iddocumento) WHERE d.idtipodocumento = 1 AND d.idlanguage = 7 AND d.status = 3 AND dd.iddocumento not in (12303085) ORDER BY d.datains DESC, d.rilevanza DESC LIMIT 6 TEXAS JUDGE CHARGED WITH BLOCKING EXECUTION APPEAL

TEXAS JUDGE CHARGED WITH BLOCKING EXECUTION APPEAL

25 February 2009 :

A judge on Texas' highest criminal court, accused of blocking appeals for an inmate the night of his execution, is now facing formal bad-conduct charges that could result in her removal from office.
The Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct charged Sharon Keller, the presiding judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals, with "willful or persistent conduct that casts public discredit on the judiciary."
Keller refused to keep the court offices open after 5 p.m. on Sept. 25, 2007, when attorneys for Michael Richard asked for a 20-minute extension because computer problems were delaying their efforts to file late appeals of his death sentence.
Richard was executed that night by lethal injection for the rape and murder of a Houston-area woman. Earlier that day, the U.S. Supreme Court had agreed to review the constitutionality of lethal injection in a Kentucky case.
 
(Sources: Ap, 20/02/2009)

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