Crime & Safety
Court Won't Stay Execution For Texas Man Who Burned Own Kids
Raphael Holiday is scheduled to be executed Wednesday, November 18.
A federal appeals court denied a stay of execution for a Texas man on death row for killing three children when he burned a house down in 2000.
An attorney filed an appeal with the 5th U.S. Circuit Court Of Appeals on behalf of Holiday, saying Raphael Holiday’s two court-appointed attorneys had “abandoned him,” according to the Houston Chronicle.
The attorney, Gretchen Sween, working pro bono, asked that the execution be stayed so he could get new counsel. Both appeals were denied Thursday night.
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Holiday is on death row for the September 2000 murders of his one-year-old daughter and 5- and 7-year-old step daughters.
Holiday burned down the Madison County house where the kids lived while they were inside.
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He is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection Wednesday, November 18.
Sween will make a final appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Chronicle reported.
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