SUSPECT: Larry Swearingen - granted a stay of execution, Aug 2013

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Convicted murderer files another appeal to avoid execution

August 15, 2019

"HOUSTON - Larry Ray Swearingen has filed another appeal to try to prevent his execution scheduled for Wednesday.
Swearingen was convicted in July 2000 for the kidnapping, rape and murder of college student Melissa Trotter. The teen disappeared on Dec. 8, 1998, from what is now called the Lone Star College campus near The Woodlands....

This is the sixth time Swearingen has been scheduled for execution...

What’s next?

Blackburn said it is possible the court will stay next week's scheduled execution so it has time to digest all of these arguments.

There is no time frame as to when the Court of Criminal Appeals will make a decision in this case."

Convicted murderer files another appeal to avoid execution
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(Larry Ray Swearingen is scheduled to be executed at 6 pm CDT, on Wednesday, August 21, 2019)

 

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6th request for stay of execution denied for convicted killer Larry Ray Swearingen

August 16, 2019

"MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Texas - Larry Ray Swearingen's sixth request for a stay of his execution was denied Friday, according to authorities.

Swearingen's execution is scheduled for Wednesday. He has avoided lethal injection five times...."

6th request for stay of execution denied for convicted killer Larry Ray Swearingen
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Swearingen Timeline- Appellate Proceedings:

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6242237/Swearingen-Timeline.pdf

 

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And now I hope they're gonna execute this monster...stop delaying what the hell...

 

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How 'Body Ranch' Research Impacts The Appeal Of A Texas Death Row Inmate

August 20, 2019

"In a murder investigation, establishing a time of death help can lead to arresting and convicting the perpetrator — or exonerating someone wrongfully accused. That's why getting it right can mean life or death for someone like Texas death row inmate Larry Swearingen. He is facing execution Wednesday for a murder he says he didn’t commit.

The science of “time of death” is something studied every day at the Forensic Anthropology Center in San Marcos, also known as “The Body Ranch.”...

In the murder of Melissa Trotter, establishing when she died is central to the conviction and the pending execution of Larry Swearingen. Trotter went missing in Willis Texas on Dec. 8, 1998. Her body was found 25 days later on Jan. 2 in the Sam Houston National Forest. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled. Her body was tossed onto a pile of bushes. Swearingen had been arrested and jailed on Dec. 11 — three days after Trotter was last seen alive.

Swearingen maintains he didn’t kill her and based on the condition of Trotter’s body, forensic experts have said there are questions about his guilt.

“The climate, weather, temperature, the data where the body was found, the environment where it was found,” Swearingen said. “[The forensic doctors] looked at all the weights, the organs — [they] looked at everything and they said Melissa died within 10 to 12 days of her body being discovered.”

There is a lot of circumstantial evidence in this case that the prosecution says points directly at Swearingen but there is no DNA that ties Swearingen to the death of Trotter. The prosecution’s case depends on establishing that Trotter died before Swearingen was jailed. The forensic evidence for that narrative is weak at best...."

How 'Body Ranch' Research Impacts The Appeal Of A Texas Death Row Inmate

 

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The Role Of Scientific Forensic Evidence Questioned In Pending Texas Execution | Houston Public Media

 

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After 19 Years On Death Row, Could Time Be Up For Larry Swearingen?

August 21, 2019

"Convicted killer Larry Swearingen is scheduled to be executed Wednesday. It was almost 20 years ago that Swearingen was found guilty of the abduction, rape and strangulation of Montgomery County college student Melissa Trotter.

This is the sixth time that Larry Swearingen was given an execution date by the state of Texas. Once he was just minutes from being put to death.

“When you're sitting there watching the clock, it really speeds up a lot faster,” Swearingen said.

This could also be the sixth time Melissa Trotter’s mother, Sandy Trotter, goes through the process of watching the man convicted of murdering her daughter not be executed.

“We are more than ready to be done so hopefully it’s looking more likely it’s going to happen. We’ve been delayed quite a few times,” Trotter said as she held a six-month-old grandson on her knee. The whole family is going to be in Huntsville to witness the execution of Swearingen, which she said should have happened years ago...."

After 19 Years On Death Row, Could Time Be Up For Larry Swearingen?

 

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A staunch claim of innocence and doubts over forensic science have long engulfed the Texas death penalty case of Larry Swearingen. On Wednesday, for the sixth time, he is set for execution.

Now, unless the U.S. Supreme Court or Texas Gov. Greg Abbott steps in, Swearingen will be put to death by lethal injection in Huntsville after 6 p.m.
Larry Swearingen is set for execution for a 1998 Texas slaying. His lawyer says bad science got him on death row. | KTSA

 

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Robert Arnold‏Verified account @KPRC2Robert 2h2 hours ago
On January 2nd, 1999 the body of Melissa Trotter was found in the Sam Houston Nat’l Forest. July 2000, Larry Ray Swearingen is convicted/sentenced to death. He’s avoided five scheduled executions. His 6th execution date is scheduled for 6pm. Reports from Huntsville on @KPRC2

 

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Larry Ray Swearingen died by lethal injection at 6:47pm. He was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1998 kidnapping, rape and murder of college student Melissa Trotter.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=912126715836567

 

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Larry Swearingen, 48, received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the December 1998 killing of 19-year-old Melissa Trotter. She was last seen leaving her community college in Conroe, and her body was found nearly a month later in a forest near Huntsville, about 70 miles (110 kilometers) north of Houston.

Texas executes man in 1998 slaying of college student

 

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As the fatal dose of pentobarbital began to enter his bloodstream, Swearingen said he could ‘hear it’ going into his vein, then claimed that he could taste it. He said: ‘It’s actually burning in my right arm. I don’t feel anything in my left arm.’ Swearingen maintained his innocence even as he took his last breaths and, in his final statement, said: ‘Lord, forgive them. They know not what they’re doing.’


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