Duane Buck spared execution by lethal injection for double murder after his lawyers put the racism card on table based on racist testimony.
Duane Buck, 48, killed his former girlfriend and a man in 1995. His guilt is not in dispute, but the fashion in which he received the death penalty is. The jury that gave him the punishment was told by a psychologist, under prosecution cross-examination, that black people posed a greater risk to violent reoffending if released from jail. His execution was halted after his lawyers contended his sentence was unfair because of a question asked about race during his trial. An inmate on Texas’s death row for the past 16 years Duane Buck has been spared execution by the lethal injection after the US supreme court halted his execution claiming that the jury at Duane Buck’s sentencing hearing was told he was a danger to the public because he is black.
Rick Perry : King of Executions in Texas since 2000
The fact it took the highest court in the nation to prevent the judicial killing of a prisoner in such controversial circumstances will put the governor of Texas, Rick Perry, further under the spotlight. He was earlier approached by lawyers of Duane Buck and exhorted to use his power to put a 30-day reprieve on the execution to give time for all parties to look at his case, but Perry did not act.
Republican Rick Perry runs for US Presidency
Rick Perry, a frontrunner for the Republican nomination for next year’s US presidential election, has seen over 235 executions since he became governor of Texas in 2000, the most recent execution carried out was on Tuesday. Last week the possible future US President Rick Perry defended his proud record during a televised debate at which the Republican audience cheered when the number of those who had been executed under him was mentioned. Ricky Perry was in Iowa fundraising for his presidential campaign against Barack Obama for the next year at the time the execution was due to have been carried out.
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