Texas death row inmate set to be executed for abduction, rape and murder of suburban Houston college student more than 20 years ago. He has always maintained his innocence and contends his conviction was based on junk science.
A Texas death row inmate is set to be executed for the abduction, rape and murder of a suburban Houston college student more than 20 years ago, even though he has always maintained his innocence and contends his conviction was based on junk science.
Swearingen's longtime appellate attorney, James Rytting, said he would ask the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the execution, arguing that lower courts"have failed to take into account the considerable amount of evidence of innocence." Swearingen, who is also represented by the Innocence Project, has previously received five stays of execution.
"I have absolutely zero doubt that anybody but Larry Swearingen killed ... Melissa Trotter," Blackburn said. Rytting maintains that a piece of pantyhose used to strangle Trotter was not a match to a piece found in Swearingen's trailer. He also disputes prosecution experts' claims dismissing blood found in Trotter's fingernail shavings, saying the blood, which was determined to not be Swearingen's, supports the defense theory that someone else killed her.
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