The Texas Attorney General launched a blistering attack on advocates fighting to save a death row inmate convicted in a controversial 'shaken baby' case, accusing them of peddling falsehoods in a last-ditch effort to sway public opinion.
A judge in California expressed his disbelief at a crime case that landed in his court, saying he could not "understand" the murder of five people, three of them children, by two half-brothers immersed in a dispute over properties in Mexico.
With time running out, Thomas Creech's legal team scrambles to halt a second execution attempt, raising last-minute constitutional challenges after a failed lethal injection in February.
The bipartisan group of lawmakers who helped halt the execution stood by their decision: "We have to make sure this never happens again."
