Texas Inmate Scheduled To Die Thursday Seeks Delay

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HUNTSVILLE,  (AP) — An attorney for a Texas death row inmate has filed court motions seeking to spare the man from being executed on Thursday.

Lawyer James Huggler says his request Wednesday to Texas courts on behalf of condemned inmate Clifton Williams is based on a disclosure from the Texas Attorney General's Office that two witnesses at Williams' 2006 trial in Tyler used incorrect statistics provided in an FBI database when testifying about population and DNA probabilities.

Huggler is seeking to delay Williams' punishment at least 60 days to investigate any effect of the errors.

Prosecutors insist the revised figures change the lab results only slightly and the new statistics remain overwhelmingly against any claims that Williams is innocent of the 2005 slaying of 93-year-old Cecelia Schneider at her home in Tyler.

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