Execution Stayed

Ramiro Gonzales

An appeals court has stayed this week’s execution of a death row inmate condemned for killing an 18-year-old southwest Texas girl. Attorneys for Ramiro Gonzales had asked the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to stay his execution, arguing prosecutors presented false testimony claiming he would be a future danger, a legal finding needed to impose a death sentence.

Gonzales, set to be put to death Wednesday, has also asked that they temporarily delay his execution so he can donate a kidney.