Texas Prosecutors Wait for Lethal Injection Ruling

Texas Prosecutors Wait for Lethal Injection Ruling toggle caption Joe Raedle/Newsmakers/Getty Images A day after the Supreme Court halted a Mississippi execution, two prosecutors in the state with the nation's busiest death chamber said they will forego asking for execution dates in the short-term. Roe Wilson, who handles death penalty appeals for the Harris County District Attorney's Office in the Houston area, and Bell County District Attorney Henry Garza said they will not ask judges to set execution dates until the high court decides on lethal injection procedures in a Kentucky case. Mississippi Execution Halted The Supreme Court has allowed only one execution to go forward since agreeing to hear the Kentucky case, which is likely to happen before the July recess. Michael Richard was executed in Texas on Sept. 25, the same day the court said it would hear a lethal injection challenge from two death row inmates in Kentucky.