Court Opinion

ID: 4048113
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Date Created: 2016-09-29 00:33:34.924889+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:41:20.073864
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IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS
                        OF TEXAS
                                      NO. AP-77,055

                        RANDALL WAYNE MAYS, Appellant

                                             v.

                                THE STATE OF TEXAS

      ON APPEAL FROM THE DENIAL OF A MOTION TO DETERMINE
                   EXECUTION COMPETENCY
         FROM CAUSE NO. B-15,717 THE 392 ND DISTRICT COURT
                      HENDERSON COUNTY

       Per curiam. M EYERS, J., dissents.

                                        ORDER

       In May 2008, a jury convicted appellant of capital murder. The jury answered the

special issues submitted under Article 37.071, and the trial court, accordingly, set

punishment at death. This Court affirmed appellant’s conviction and sentence on direct

appeal. Mays v. State, 318 S.W.3d 368 (Tex. Crim. App. 2010).

       Appellant filed his initial post-conviction application for writ of habeas corpus in

the convicting court on May 3, 2010. This Court denied relief. Ex parte Mays, No. WR-
                                                                                    MAYS – 2

75,105-01 (Tex. Crim. App. Mar. 16, 2011)(not designated for publication). The trial

court subsequently set an execution date of March 18, 2015.

       On February 24, 2015, appellant filed a motion in the trial court pursuant to Texas

Code of Criminal Procedure Article 46.05 challenging his competency to be executed.1

On February 27, the trial court issued an order in which it found that appellant had failed

to make a threshold showing raising a substantial doubt of his competency to be executed.

Thus, the trial court declined to appoint at least two experts to evaluate appellant.

Appellant now seeks appellate review of the trial court’s denial of his motion to

determine execution competency under Article 46.05.

       This Court has determined that further review is necessary. Accordingly,

appellant’s execution is stayed pending further order from this Court.

       IT IS SO ORDERED THIS THE 16 th DAY OF MARCH, 2015.

Do not publish

       1
         See Green v. State, 374 S.W.3d 434, 443 (Tex. Crim. App. 2012)(holding that
the Article 46.05 standard for reviewing the competency of inmates to be executed is a
codification of Ford v. Wainwright, 477 U.S. 399 (1989), and remains constitutionally
adequate in the wake of Panetti v. Quarterman, 551 U.S. 930 (2007)).