FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - A Texas appeals court has stayed the scheduled execution of a Fort Worth man condemned for smothering an 89-year-old man and robbing him of some $6,000 in 2004.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports (https://bit.ly/2jMOyFP ) the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals issued an order Friday staying the lethal injection of 37-year-old Tilon Lashon Carter. He was set to be executed on Tuesday.
The appeals court granted the stay based on a legal technicality related to a delay in notifying a state office of the execution date.
Carter’s appellate attorney, Robertson Norris, told the newspaper he believes the order will “at most … just delay his execution.”
Carter was condemned for the robbery and slaying of James Tomlin, a retired Bell Helicopter worker.
Prosecutors portrayed Carter as a longtime criminal.
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