NEW: Texas Executes Inmate After Waiting ALL DAY For Supreme Court Decision
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3.0 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Texas executed its 600th inmate after hours of waiting to hear word from the Supreme Court, which ultimately decided to lift a lower court’s stay. Edward Busby was pronounced dead at 8:11 PM CT. We go over the powerful two sentence dissent from the justices against executing Busby, whose attorneys claimed was intellectually disabled, and you’ll also hear Busby’s lengthy final words, where he begs for forgiveness from the family of his victim.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.0 | Hey, that folks. It is Friday, May 15th, and the Supreme Court stepped in, intervened in a Texas execution last night. |
| 0:16.1 | But their intervention didn't stop an execution. In fact, it did exactly the opposite. And with that, |
| 0:23.5 | welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. Edward Busby is dead, declared dead at 8.11 central time |
| 0:30.8 | last night in Texas and robes up to the last couple of hours. We didn't know if this would go through. |
| 0:37.6 | Yeah, I have to say, I was shocked because we reported on this. |
| 0:41.4 | We had a whole episode on this yesterday, this on again, off again execution. |
| 0:46.2 | And normally when there was an intervention from a high court, it's usually, as you pointed out, to stop an execution, to put a stay on an execution. |
| 0:55.6 | But the Texas Attorney General was incensed that last week, an appellate court actually put a stay |
| 1:02.6 | on the planned execution of Edward Busby because there were questions around his intellectual |
| 1:08.9 | capabilities. But the attorney general quickly asked the Supreme Court to intervene on Monday, |
| 1:14.6 | and sure enough, I haven't seen anything like this before. |
| 1:18.3 | They made a decision in the 11th hour to clear the way to lift this day |
| 1:23.3 | and to allow the state of Texas to carry out its scheduled execution, albeit a few hours |
| 1:29.0 | post when it was scheduled. |
| 1:31.0 | We hear all this. |
| 1:31.8 | We hear all the time ropes on so many. |
| 1:34.5 | I don't even know what the percentage would be, but just by the ones we've covered, I would |
| 1:38.3 | say 90% plus. |
| 1:41.3 | Anytime there's an execution, they make an appeal to the Supreme Court to stay the execution. |
| 1:47.0 | And the Supreme Court usually just doesn't say a word, doesn't do anything one way or the other, |
| 1:53.4 | and the executions go through. |
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