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Federal Appeals Court Grants Stay of Execution for Texas Inmate

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Federal Appeals Court Grants Stay of Execution for Texas Inmate

A federal appeals court on Tuesday granted a request for a stay of execution for Robert James Campbell hours before he was scheduled to die.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted the request from Mr. Campbell’s lawyers that his execution be stopped because of intellectual disability. The stay came just hours after the court had refused to stop the execution based on a different line of reasoning.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/14/us/stay-of-execution-texas-inmate.html?emc=edit_na_20140513




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