{"id":861275,"date":"2020-03-19T16:32:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T21:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=861275"},"modified":"2020-03-21T08:37:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T13:37:53","slug":"texas-court-delays-2nd-execution-due-to-virus-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=861275","title":{"rendered":"Texas Court Delays 2nd Execution due to Virus Outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-861471\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2020\/03\/TB-e1584713968558-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>AUSTIN (AP) &#8211; A Texas appeals court has delayed the execution of a second death row inmate as the state tries to contain the outbreak of the coronavirus. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Thursday ordered a 60-day delay of Tracy Beatty&#8217;s scheduled March 25 execution in &#8220;light of the current health crisis and the enormous resources needed to address that emergency.&#8221; Beatty, of Whitehouse, was set to die for the 2003 slaying of his 62-year-old mother. The court noted it previously upheld his conviction and sentence. The court on Monday ordered a similar delay for John William Hummel&#8217;s scheduled execution on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN (AP) &#8211; A Texas appeals court has delayed the execution of a second death row inmate as the state tries to contain the outbreak of the coronavirus. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Thursday ordered a 60-day delay of Tracy Beatty&#8217;s scheduled March 25 execution in &#8220;light of the current health crisis and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=861275\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Texas Court Delays 2nd Execution due to Virus Outbreak<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":861471,"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-861275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-04 03:37:10","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\/861275","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=861275"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861472,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861275\/revisions\/861472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/861471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=861275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=861275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=861275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}