Shocking Judicial Conduct

Judge Keller ordered her office closed early to prevent a death penalty appeal from being filed. The inmate was executed soon after:

Twenty Texas lawyers have joined in a complaint to be filed with the State Commission on Judicial Conduct against Court of Criminal Appeals Presiding Judge Sharon Keller for closing the CCA clerk's office at 5 p.m. on Sept. 25, preventing an inmate's attorneys from filing an emergency request to stay his execution.

Within hours after the CCA closed its doors, the state executed Michael Richard for a 1986 murder.