Overview
- The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied a stay and the parole board rejected commutation, leaving a Wednesday evening execution in Huntsville as scheduled.
- A filing before the U.S. Supreme Court argues a failed intubation caused Dennise Hayslip’s death, supported by a doctor’s new affidavit recasting prior testimony.
- Prosecutors say jurors already rejected the medical-care theory and contend state law holds Thompson responsible because the death would not have occurred but for the shooting.
- Thompson was convicted of killing Darren Cain at the scene and shooting Hayslip, who died a week later, in an April 1998 attack at her Harris County apartment.
- His initial death sentence was vacated in 2001 over an unconstitutional undercover operation, a 2005 resentencing restored the penalty, and he briefly escaped jail before capture; Hayslip’s family says they will witness the execution, the first in the U.S. this year.