Dallas, TX – An execution date has been set for a Jewish death row inmate in Texas who filed an appeal alleging that the judge in the case was anti-Semitic and racist.
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Dallas County Judge Lela Mays on Wednesday approved an Oct. 10 execution date for Randy Halprin.
Halprin, 41, was part of the “Texas 7” group of prisoners who escaped from the John B. Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas, on Dec. 13, 2000; six were apprehended over a month later. One committed suicide.
They were convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of a Texas police officer who responded to a robbery perpetrated by the prisoners. Four of the prisoners already have been executed.
Halprin said in the appeal filed in May that Judge Vickers Cunningham referred to him using anti-Semitic language and should have recused himself from his case. Cunningham sentenced Halprin to death in 2003.
“Mr. Halprin’s trial judge, who presided over the death-penalty trial, made critical decisions about what evidence the jury would hear, and sentenced Mr. Halprin to die, was biased against Mr. Halprin, referring to him as a “f****n’ Jew” and a “G*****n k**e,” Halprin’s attorney, Tivon Schardl, said in a statement.
“No execution can proceed until the courts have time to consider the important new evidence that bigotry infected Mr. Halprin’s legal process. Ultimately, the Constitution requires that Mr. Halprin must have a new trial and sentencing hearing, free of discrimination and bias.”
Before escaping as part of the “Texas 7,” Halprin was serving a 30-year sentence for physically abusing a 16-month old child.
I hope we don’t make a chillul hashem trying to save this cop killer
Don’t be silly. He didn’t kill any cops. He was an accomplice to a felony murder. A felony murder is when a death occurs, even inadvertently, in the course of the commission of a felony. And he wasn’t even the one that killed the cop. He was an accomplice to a felony murder.
On the other hand, he apparently molested an infant. Without knowing the facts of the case, I would venture to guess that this might have also been a very, very, bad thing.
In Texas, you do the crime, you do the time, or worse; they don’t fool around there as is the case in NY, and other states.
He’s had almost twenty years to bring this up. I don’t believe it.
We have a story about some killer in Texas, but nothing about Jeffrey Epstein, a young man from Brooklyn.
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Do you realise that a molested victim lives every minute of his life as being murdered over and over. In certain cases being death for a molested child is better than being alive. Speak to your Dr. about this. Please let’s not get carried away from the main topic of this news article.
What’s his jewish name and his mothers name so we could daven for him?
Reply to #10 : bein kach u’bein kach, boniy heim : Even the worst among us is beloved by Hashem. Don’t you have some (small, hopefully) shortcomings that you want Hashem to overlook and accept you? How is this man’s Yiddishe neshamah less worthy than yours?