5th Circuit Court
Judge Nixes Execution Date for Longest-Serving Texas Inmate
Posted Jul 3, 2008, 12:35 pm CDT
By Martha Neil
A state court judge has withdrawn the scheduled July 22 execution date for Lester Bower, Texas' longest-serving death row inmate, in order to address Bower's long-standing request for DNA testing of cigarette butts and hair strands found at the scene of the multiple murder of which he was convicted in 1984.
When he was found guilty of the 1983 execution-style slayings of four men in an airplane hangar in Grayson County, a state law, which has since been repealed, said that new evidence had to be introduced within 30 days of conviction to merit a new trial. Several years after Bower's conviction, a woman came forward and implicated others in the murder, which she said occurred during a deadly drug… Continue reading...
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