Update 7:15pm: As noted by the media, including the Texas Tribune‘s Jolie McCullough, the execution of Kosoul Chanthakoummane proceeded as scheduled. “His mother watched him die,” McCullough reported.
Hours before Kosoul Chanthakoummane’s execution set for 6 p.m. August 17, one juror from the original trial told the Texas Observer that they still have faith in DNA evidence presented at trial—which linked Chanthakoummane to the 2006 murder of Dallas-area realtor Sarah Walker and is the main reason they cast their “guilty” vote in 2007.
But the same juror, who spoke to the Observer only hours before the scheduled execution, also said they believe that the issues the Laotian-American’s defense team has raised about that DNA evidence in last-minute appeals should be considered.
