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InmatesdiscussexecutionBy SARAH DURDIN News-Texan Bureau• 1983 by News leun IncHUNTSVILLE — Relief and confusion set the tone Wednesday as Death Row inmates discussed a stay granted to halt the scheduled execution of Thomas Barefoot.Relief that the execution is indefinitely delayed while Barefoot’s appeal goes to the Supreme Court as a test case to set standards for appealing a death penalty.Confusion at what inmates say is a contradiction of values, killing convicts convicted of killing others.In interviews with the Daily News, inmates at the Texas Department of Corrections Ellis Unit in Huntsville also said the recent execution of Charles Brooks has since created a mood of waiting for an series of executions.“One of the most important things to come out of the Brooks execution is that it woke up a lot of people here who’ve been on the row for years. Until Brooks was killed, the theory was, ‘Will they ever really do it?”’ said Ronald Clark O’Brien.O’Brien was convicted in 1976 of poisoning his 8-year-old son with cyanide laced Halloween candy. He maintains he is innocent, adding he was convicted on the strength of circumstantial evidence.DAVID WAYNE MCKAY,See Death, Page 2
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