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April 16, 2013
Threadgill execution carried out in Huntsville
The State of Texas has carried out the execution of convicted killer Ronnie Threadgill.
Last minute appeals for clemency and U.S. Supreme Court intervention filed in his case failed.
Threadgill was convicted in 2002 in the killing of 17-year-old Dexter McDonald in an altercation outside a Navarro County nightclub a year earlier.
Attorneys for Ronnie Threadgill, 40, argued his case deserved review because he had deficient legal help during his 2002 capital murder trial when he was sentenced to die for the killing of 17-year-old Dexter McDonald. The appeal argued he would not have received a death sentence if he had better legal representation, and asked his case be returned to a lower court.
The high court's rejection came in a brief order less than an hour before Threadgill's scheduled lethal injection.
Last minute appeals for clemency and U.S. Supreme Court intervention filed in his case failed.
Threadgill was convicted in 2002 in the killing of 17-year-old Dexter McDonald in an altercation outside a Navarro County nightclub a year earlier.
Attorneys for Ronnie Threadgill, 40, argued his case deserved review because he had deficient legal help during his 2002 capital murder trial when he was sentenced to die for the killing of 17-year-old Dexter McDonald. The appeal argued he would not have received a death sentence if he had better legal representation, and asked his case be returned to a lower court.
The high court's rejection came in a brief order less than an hour before Threadgill's scheduled lethal injection.
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