Protestors call for Texas judge Sharon Keller to resign

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Protestors visited the Austin home of Texas Court of Criminal Appeals presiding judge Sharon Keller Tuesday night, as a decision she made in late September continues to draw a flurry of judicial complaints.

On September 25, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider the constitutionality of lethal injection. As the issue is pending, every scheduled execution nationwide has been put on hold.

Except for one.

Convicted killer Michael Richard was set to die the same day the high court set its docket. His attorneys filed an appeal to Keller's court, but didn't get the filings in until 5:20pm. Keller refused to keep the court open, saying "we close at five."

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[austintexas300]

CONVICED KILLER. nuff said. He was a murdering thug and now he is paying for his brutal actions. In Texas you live by the sword.. and DIE by the sword.

[austintexas300]

Hooman Hedayati an Iranian living in Austin Texas is behind the website attacking the Texas Judge.

[CARTER4526]

DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS!

[carlo75x]

@ElensarFFXI Well I have a point to make. This womans case was just vacated and this is the worst travesty of justice in a state that leads the world in travesties of justice. In another case Keller said "innocence is not an issue in Texas." She said this after refusing to release a man who had been provan innocent by DNA after she refused to allow the test in the first place. My point is they need to send her for about 5 years to the Hilltop unit and see what her politics are when she is out.

[carlo75x]

And so is and so does she. This is a woman who said, in another case that put her in Texas Monthly Magazine, that "innocence is NOT (emphasis added) an issue in Texas after conviction. He got a fair trial". This was in the Green case and well before the Richard case. She said this after DNA proved his innocence and she refused to reverse her earlier decision to DENY DNA testing. Texas kills more people in its prisons than China and North Korea TOGETHER. Someone needs to give TEXAS some sword.

[kabloozie]

If she calls the police about the protesters, the police can say they close at 5.

[ElensarFFXI]

Got to love when people who become personally offensive when they have no actual point to make.

[stopexecutions]

stupid right wingers in their underwear making comments in between looking for girlfriends in the phillipines and playing final fantasy.

[ElensarFFXI]

Protest at her court, get the fuck away from her family home though. HATE protestors mostly.

[iMBBonlyone]

i have a question- if she had allowed the filinf 20 minutes late, would the families of other convicts say that she gave him unfair special consideration? probably. i agree this is sad, but in her position, she had to follow the rule.