Post by sclcookie on Jun 3, 2006 14:38:41 GMT -5
Amarilloan's execution set for Tuesday
Barring a stay by Gov. Rick Perry or any last-minute appeals, an Amarillo
man condemned for the 1992 ax-slaying of a woman will face lethal
injection next week.
The execution of Timothy Tyler Titsworth, 34, is scheduled to begin at 6
p.m. Tuesday at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Huntsville Unit
in Huntsville.
No federal appeals had been filed as of Friday for Titsworth, who has
until the time of execution Tuesday to appeal or be granted a stay, said
Jerry Strickland, spokesman with the Texas Attorney General's Office.
A Randall County jury convicted Titsworth in October 1993 for the July 23,
1992, slaying of Amarilloan Christine Marie Sossaman, his live-in
girlfriend.
Sossaman was found dead in the bedroom of her trailer at 6601 W. Arden
Road in Amarillo. She had been attacked with an ax, according to the
attorney general's office.
Titsworth told police that he left the trailer to buy cocaine after he and
Sossaman argued the night of her death. Titsworth, at the time on
probation for vehicle theft, said he was high on crack cocaine when he
returned to the trailer, took an ax from a closet and struck Sossaman as
she slept.
Titsworth then stole Sossaman's credit cards and car, and returned to the
trailer several times to steal other personal items to sell for drugs.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed Titsworth's conviction in
1995 and denied a relief petition on his behalf in 1999.
Both the U.S. District Court and the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
also denied appeals and petitions for review between 2003 and January.
181st District Judge John Board set Titsworth's June 6 execution date on
Feb. 10.
If executed Tuesday, Titsworth will become the state's 11th offender put
to death in 2006 and Randall County's 2nd offender executed since capital
punishment was reinstated in 1976, according to the Texas Department of
Criminal Justice.
(source: Amarillo.com)
Barring a stay by Gov. Rick Perry or any last-minute appeals, an Amarillo
man condemned for the 1992 ax-slaying of a woman will face lethal
injection next week.
The execution of Timothy Tyler Titsworth, 34, is scheduled to begin at 6
p.m. Tuesday at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Huntsville Unit
in Huntsville.
No federal appeals had been filed as of Friday for Titsworth, who has
until the time of execution Tuesday to appeal or be granted a stay, said
Jerry Strickland, spokesman with the Texas Attorney General's Office.
A Randall County jury convicted Titsworth in October 1993 for the July 23,
1992, slaying of Amarilloan Christine Marie Sossaman, his live-in
girlfriend.
Sossaman was found dead in the bedroom of her trailer at 6601 W. Arden
Road in Amarillo. She had been attacked with an ax, according to the
attorney general's office.
Titsworth told police that he left the trailer to buy cocaine after he and
Sossaman argued the night of her death. Titsworth, at the time on
probation for vehicle theft, said he was high on crack cocaine when he
returned to the trailer, took an ax from a closet and struck Sossaman as
she slept.
Titsworth then stole Sossaman's credit cards and car, and returned to the
trailer several times to steal other personal items to sell for drugs.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed Titsworth's conviction in
1995 and denied a relief petition on his behalf in 1999.
Both the U.S. District Court and the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
also denied appeals and petitions for review between 2003 and January.
181st District Judge John Board set Titsworth's June 6 execution date on
Feb. 10.
If executed Tuesday, Titsworth will become the state's 11th offender put
to death in 2006 and Randall County's 2nd offender executed since capital
punishment was reinstated in 1976, according to the Texas Department of
Criminal Justice.
(source: Amarillo.com)