Texas Judge Asks for Dismissal of Charges in Inmate’s Execution

In asking the State Commission on Judicial Conduct to dismiss its charges against her, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Presiding Judge Sharon Keller lays some of the blame for an inmate's execution in 2007 on his lawyers. In her answer to the commission's Notice of Formal Proceedings, Keller alleges she never was told that Michael Richard's lawyers were having computer problems that delayed them in filing for a stay of execution on Sept. 25, 2007, the day that the state executed Richard.