{"id":305878,"date":"2014-06-30T08:45:15","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T13:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=305878"},"modified":"2014-07-01T02:45:27","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T07:45:27","slug":"convicted-murderer-loses-death-row-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=305878","title":{"rendered":"Convicted Murderer Loses Death Row Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/06\/maysrandall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/06\/maysrandall-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"maysrandall\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-305879\" \/><\/a>HOUSTON (AP) &#8211; An East Texas man sentenced to death for a shootout that left two Henderson County sheriff&#8217;s deputies dead seven years ago has lost a federal court appeal, moving him a step closer to execution. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has refused arguments from attorneys for 54-year-old Randall Wayne Mays that the former welder and oilfield worker had deficient legal help at his 2008 trial. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The court late Friday also turned down contentions that sentencing Mays to death was unconstitutionally cruel because he&#8217;s mentally ill. Mays was convicted of the slaying of sheriff&#8217;s deputy Tony Ogburn. A second officer, Paul Habelt, also was killed. A third deputy was wounded. The shootings occurred after Mays barricaded himself in his house in Payne Springs, about 55 miles southeast of Dallas. Mays&#8217; brother, Noble Mays, Jr., was executed in 1995 for the fatal stabbing of a Good Samaritan who agreed to help him with a disabled car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON (AP) &#8211; An East Texas man sentenced to death for a shootout that left two Henderson County sheriff&#8217;s deputies dead seven years ago has lost a federal court appeal, moving him a step closer to execution. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has refused arguments from attorneys for 54-year-old Randall Wayne Mays that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=305878\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Convicted Murderer Loses Death Row Appeal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 10:20:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305878"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305895,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305878\/revisions\/305895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}