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HOUSTON, March 15 (UPI) -- Prosecutors said Monday in Texas they want two executions put on hold until the U.S. Supreme Court rules on the issue of executing juveniles for murder.
Jane Scott, an assistant Harris County prosecutor, said the office has asked judges to cancel the scheduled executions of Raul Omar Villarreal and Efrain Perez. They were scheduled for execution in June for the rape and strangulation of two Houston girls. They were 17 at the time of the crime in 1993.
The Supreme Court has already stayed two Texas juvenile executions until it can hear a Missouri case in which the execution of juveniles was ruled unconstitutional. Scott said her office decided there was no point in pursuing other executions involving juveniles that would eventually be stayed.
Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, said there are 72 U.S. death row inmates who were juveniles at the time of their crimes.
Dieter expects the Supreme Court to rule on the issue early in 2005 and any other executions of juveniles will be stayed until then. Nineteen states now bar the execution of juveniles.
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