Man convicted of killing parents 10 years ago in suburban Dallas set to die Thursday

Lawyers for condemned inmate Carlton Turner are hoping he can avoid the Texas death chamber a second time. Turner, 29, faces lethal injection Thursday for killing his adoptive parents 10 years ago, slayings he has acknowledged. The suburban Dallas man eluded the executioner in September when he won a reprieve from the U.S. Supreme Court. The reprieve made Turner the first Texas prisoner to have his punishment stopped after the high court decided to look at an appeal from a pair of Kentucky death row inmates who argued lethal injection was unconstitutionally cruel. When the justices in April upheld the method and turned aside their appeal that had halted executions around the country, Turner's lethal injection was rescheduled for this week. His execution would be the second in America's most active death penalty state since... [read full story]