The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals decided against giving Napoleon Beazley a second habeas corpus review and lifted the stay preventing his execution for a murder committed when he was 17.

The court issued the stay on Aug. 15, 2001, just hours before Beazley was scheduled to die. He was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1994 murder of the father of a federal appeals judge.

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