POST CONVICTION APPEALS
31ST DISTRICT COURT GRAY COUNTY ORDER SETTING DATE OF EXECUTION & DEATH WARRANT JULY 27, 2011
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2011, shall be executed by intravenous injection of a substance or substances in a lethal quantity sufficient to cause death and until the said HENRY WATKINS SKINNER is dead, with such execution procedure to be determined and supervised by the Director of the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The clerk of this court shall issue a death warrant in accordance with this sentence directed to the warden of the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice at Huntsville and deliver such warrant to the Sheriff of Gray County to be delivered to said warden. SIGNED AND ENTERED this
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Honorable Steven Emmert Judge Presiding
THE STATE OF TEXAS COUNTY OF GRAY
DEATH WARRANT CAUSE NO. 5216 THE STATE OF TEXAS
IN THE 31sT DISTRICT COURT
Vs. HENRY WATKINS SKINNER
OF GRAY COUNTY, TEXAS
TO THE DIRECTOR OF THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE INSTITUTIONAL DIVISION, AND TO THE SHERIFF OF GRAY COUNTY, TEXAS; GREETINGS: . On the 18th day of March, 1995, Henry Watkins Skinner, defendant, in the above styled and numbered cause, was convicted of the offense of Capital Murder, (Judgment attached). On the 23rd day of March, 1995, the Court sentenced the above-named defendant to death in accordance with the findings of the jury, pursuant to the Texas Code of Criminal PWcedure. ....-.
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adjudged to be guilty of capital murder, and whose punishment has been assessed at death, at any time after the hour of 6:00 p.m. on the 9th day of November, 2011, shall be executed by intravenous injection of a substance or substances in a lethal quantity sufficient to cause death and until the said HENRY WATKINS SKINNER is dead, with such execution procedure to be determined and supervised by the Director of the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, and further ORDERS the issuance and delivery of this WARRANT.
THE SHERIFF OF GRAy COUNTY, TEXAS, IS HEREBY L.,OMMANDED TO DELIVER THIS WARRANT TO THE DIRECTOR OF THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE INSTITUTIONAL DIVISION, for the purpose of executing this warrant, and to take from the Director the proper receipt. The Sheriff is further ordered to deliver the receipt to the office of the District Clerk, Gray County, Texas. THE DIRECTOR OF THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE INSTITUTIONAL DIVISION AT HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS, IS HEREBY COMMANDED TO RECEIVE FROM THE SHERIFF OF GRAY COUNTY, TEXAS THIS WARRANT AND TO GIVE HIS RECEIPT TO THE SHERIFF, to safely keep the defendant, and to execute the sentence of death at any time after the hour of 6:00 p.m. on the 9th day of November, 2011, by intravenous injection of a substance or substances in a lethal quantity sufficient to cause death, and until the said HENRY WATKINS SKINNER is dead, obeying all laws of the State of Texas with reference to such execution. THE DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTIONAL DIVISION OF THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE SHALL MAKE DUE RETURN OF THIS WARRANT TO THE CLERK OF THE COURT IN WHICH THIS SENTENCE WAS PASSED AS PROVIDED BY LAW. ISSUED UNDER MY HAND AND SEAL OF COURT AT PAMPA, GRAY COUNTY, TEXAS on July 28, 2011.
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