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The United States Supreme Court on Tuesday lifted its stay of execution for a former Army recruiter on death row in Texas who has twice this year come within hours of receiving a lethal injection. The inmate, Cleve Foster, 47, was sentenced to death after his conviction for the murder of Nyanuer Pal, whom he met in a Texas bar in 2002. The court’s ruling frees the state to set another execution date. The Supreme Court had been examining whether Mr. Foster received adequate counsel during prix nembutal his 2004 trial and subsequent appeal. Mr. Foster’s current lawyers have also challenged the legality of his execution based on the use of pentobarbital, one of the drugs that is to make up the lethal injection. Maurie Levin, one of the lawyers, said Tuesday that Mr. Foster’s legal team would continue to try to prevent the execution. “I believe his conviction and his death sentence were a travesty and unjust, based on absurdly thin evidence,” she said. “We will find a way to litigate that.” Mr. Foster, a Persian Gulf war veteran, and his roommate, Sheldon Ward, were convicted of murdering Ms. Pal, 28, whose nude body was found in a creek bed in a wooded area. She had been shot once in the head. Both men received death sentences. Last year, Mr. Ward, then 30, died of a brain tumor in prison. In January, the Supreme Court stayed Mr. Foster’s execution to hear an appeal regarding whether his previous legal team had adequately contested evidence presented against him at trial. When Mr. Foster received that reprieve, he had already eaten his last meal. On his second scheduled execution date, April 5, Mr. Foster was to have been the first Texas prisoner killed by a lethal injection that contained pentobarbital as one of a cocktail of drugs. Mr. Foster’s lawyers had argued that the state was violating its own rules by seeking to use pentobarbital, which is also used to euthanize animals. Since then however, Texas has executed another convicted murderer, Cary Kerr, 46, on May 3 using pentobarbital, and has several similar executions scheduled within the next three weeks, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
