Texas halts scheduled execution pending drug test
HOUSTON (AP) — The scheduled July 14 execution of a man convicted in the slaying of a Houston medical student was postponed indefinitely Wednesday pending testing of the lethal injection drugs as part of a lawsuit settlement, a prison system spokesman said.
According to trial evidence, Carter had dropped off a movie at a video store and was walking back to his car when he was abducted at gunpoint, ordered to the front passenger seat of his car and was driven away.