Steven Staley

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rules that death row inmate cannot be forcibly medicated

Kristin Ford v. Wainwright, incompetency, severe mental illness, Steven Staley, Texas. Court of Criminal Appeals

A ruling by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals today, September 11, 2013, finds that a state district judge does not have the authority to order Texas death row inmate Steven Staley to be forcibly medicated in order to render him competent to be executed.   Staley has been on death row since 1991; he […]

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Court of Criminal Appeals Grants Stay to Steven Staley

Kristin 2 Comments death penalty, execution, forced medication, Ford v. Wainwright, incompetency, mental illness, Steven Staley, Tarrant County, Texas, Texas. Court of Criminal Appeals, U.S. Supreme Court

Update as of 5:00 PM on May 14: We just learned that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has granted a stay of execution to Steven Staley. The court did not provide a reason for the reprieve, saying only that “it had determined the execution should be halted “‘pending further order by this court.'”

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