New Trial Denied For Inmate On Texas Death Row For 30 Years
An inmate who has been on Texas death row for nearly three decades
lost his bid for a new trial Monday.

WASHINGTON (April 19, 2010)—The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal
Monday from Texas death row inmate Delma Banks, who argued he didn’t
receive a fair trial when he was convicted in 1980 of killing a
teenager.

In September the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Banks’
conviction.

Banks has spent nearly 30 years on Texas death row awaiting execution.
Banks was convicted of capital murder in the shooting death of Wayne
Whitehead, 16, at a park near Texarkana.

Whitehead was shot twice in the head.

Prosecutors said Banks stole the teenager’s car and drove to Dallas
after the shooting.

Banks' lawyers argued prosecutors in Bowie County improperly withheld
the transcript of a pretrial interview of a key witness.

The New Orleans-based appeals court ruling in September said the
transcript didn't undermine the verdict.

In 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court stopped Banks' execution about 10
minutes before he could have been taken to the Texas death chamber.

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