Troy Kunkles case was denied again!
He will get a new date as soon that is possible!
They can not wait to kill him.....

Amy

Very sad indeed :(

My prayers and thoughts go out to Mr Kunkle, his loved one, family and friends. What a roller coaster ride they have been on !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:argh: Just shows who the real SICK people are to play with someone's mind and life like this. My heart goes out to him and all those who love him and who are caught in this unspeakable cat and mouse game.

This is just terrible news :(
My heart goes out to Troy, Christa and there family and friends.

I would like for you ALL to know what it means to someone like me, who has a loved one on Death Row, to see the positive replies here on this site. It gets so hard sometimes knowing that the majority of people do not care if the states execute someone or not. It warms my heart to know that there are so many who do care. Thank you all for these thoughts shared here with us and let us all keep Troy and his family in our prayers and thoughts. You know this has to be a hard trying time for them all. God Bless

Christa stay as strong as you can. Our thoughts with you and Troy. :(

Heavy metal killer's execution stay lifted

Maro Robbins
Express-News Staff Writer

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to reconsider a San Antonio man's death
penalty Monday, even as one of the justices went out of his way to say the
sentence was unfair and deserves to be overturned.

The court's decision automatically lifted the stay of execution that spared
Troy Kunkle last month, but the fate of the former Roosevelt High School
student seemed far from settled.

Plainly disturbed by the way Kunkle was sentenced, Justice John Paul Stevens
accompanied his vote to reject the case with a written explanation that
seemed to invite another round of appeals.

Stevens was the only justice to address the case and characterized the court
as stymied by procedural barriers. He said the justices had no authority to
review Kunkle's appeal because it hinged on state law, not federal.

"That result is regrettable because it seems plain that Kunkle's sentence
was imposed in violation of the Constitution," Stevens concluded.

Kunkle's case taps into ongoing tension between the Supreme Court and the
lower courts over the treatment of death sentences issued in Texas before
1991.

Until the law was changed that year, Texas courts did not clearly tell
jurors they could spare a defendant's life if they found mitigating
evidence, such as mental illness.

The high court told the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and the 5th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals twice this year that they improperly reviewed and
upheld death sentences from that era.

Some victims-rights advocates characterize the Supreme Court as mercurial
and suggest the justices deserve blame if lower courts are confused.

"It's impossible to know what the rules are because the Supreme Court keeps
changing them," said Dianne Clements, executive director of the
Houston-based nonprofit victims advocacy group Justice For All.

Some experts predict Kunkle's case will receive further review -- even though
the court has now twice declined to consider appeals filed by the
38-year-old man who has spent more than half his life on death row.

He shot a man during a 1984 stickup in Corpus Christi and then recited
lyrics from the heavy metal song "No Remorse."

"I would say this is going to prove to be a minor bump in a long road that
is eventually going to end in victory for Mr. Kunkle," said Eric Freedman, a
Hofstra University law professor and a close watcher of death penalty
litigation.

Kunkle's lawyers were encouraged by Justice Stevens' conclusions and
resolved to press ahead with arguments that the inmate has a history of
mental illness that jurors were not allowed to consider adequately during
trial.

"It would just be obscene to kill a man when he did not get a proper
sentencing," said Danalynn Recer, an attorney with the Gulf Region Advocacy
Center, a nonprofit group that aids death penalty defenses.

While it was not immediately clear whether prosecutors would request another
execution date, they remained steadfast in their defense of Kunkle's
conviction.

Greg Norman, the prosecutor handling the appeal for the Nueces County
district attorney's office, said no mitigating evidence would have saved
Kunkle from the death sentence:

"I guess our position, if you sweep away all the legal nuances, is that
we're comfortable he got what he deserved."

This is really horrible news..I will keep all in my prayers

ill keep him and his loved ones in my thoughts and prayers

Very sad news:( I'll pray for a miracle.

Susan

my thoughts are with Troy and Christa and as always all of those with loved ones in HELL and the people who reside on a row that should not exist :(

troy and christa and family. you are in my thoughts and prayers. i pray for a sense of calmness, releif, and gods love wrapped around you keeping you comforted and safe. love, ashtynn

Just shows who the real SICK people are to play with someone's mind and life like this.

I agree fully w/ this statement. While a supporter of the DP in certain cases, I have read about this case and don't agree, at all, with this and I think its especially cruel to give a stay and then call it back up. I think if its stayed, it should stay GONE!

That is such sad news,my prayers go out to him and his famly and friends :cry:

My thought go to Troy Kunkle, his family and all those who love him.
This is sad and plain wrong, brutal, uncivilised and inhumane.
I pray for the day that exectutions no longer exist in the USA.