The process by which our justice system identifies those who will suffer a state-authorized execution and those, who once identified, will be spared, fills our law books and provides evocative subject matter for editorial writing, films and novels. Ex Parte Randy Ethan Halprin (in the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, NO. WR-77,175-05) is one such example.

On Dec. 13, 2000, Randy Ethan Halprin along with six other inmates escaped from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Connally Unit. They stole firearms and ammunition from the prison and made their way to Irving, Texas, where, on Christmas Eve, they robbed a sporting-goods store.

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