Speer has been on death row for decades after strangling another inmate at a Texas prison. The victim’s sister and faith leaders have both called on the parole board to halt the execution.
, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.of William Speer on Thursday, just hours before he was scheduled to be executed. He was sentenced to death for the 1997 murder of a fellow prison inmate.
The criminal appeals court, Texas’ highest court for criminal cases, did not explicitly sustain those allegations. Its order only stayed the execution “pending further order of this Court.” More than two decades ago, Speer was sentenced to death for the murder of Gary Dickerson, in an effort to join a Texas Mafia prison gang in state prison. When Speer killed Dickerson, he was serving a life sentence for the murder of his friend’s father, Jerry Collins, who he suspected of abusing his friend. Speer was 16 at the time of the first killing.
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