Kenneth Mosley, a man convicted of capital murder, is scheduled to be executed in the State of Texas this Thursday, September 24, 2009.
On February 15, 1997, Mosley entered a bank in Garland, Texas, intending to rob it. Recognizing Mosley as the bank robber the previous month, someone called the police. Officer David Moore arrived at the scene and confronted Mosley who was waiting in line. A struggle occurred, and the two men crashed through a plate glass window; Moore was shot and fatally wounded.
At the trial, Kenneth Mosley testified that he had gone to the bank for robbery in order to obtain money to buy drugs and that he did not intend to kill the police officer. The defense presented only two witnesses on his behalf during the sentencing phase of the trial.
What Mosley's trial lawyer failed to mention in the trial was his abusive upbringing, exposure to toxic pesticides as a child, his possible frontal lobe damage, and his use of cocaine to self-medicate and treat his depression.
Kenneth Mosley's jury was not presented with a full picture of who they were sentencing. Therefore, Amnesty International is urging the Governor Perry and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to stop the execution of Kenneth Mosley.
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