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By Associated Press 4:38 PM Thursday, September 24, 2009

HUNTSVILLE, Texas – The execution of a man convicted of killing a graduate of Madison High School was halted by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Texas death row inmate Kenneth Mosley was set to receive lethal injection today, Sept. 24, for fatally shooting Texas police Officer Michael Moore in 1997.

However, the court stopped the execution until an Alabama death penalty case – that Mosley’s lawyer said could affect his case – is settled in November.

The Alabama case centers on whether a trial lawyer was constitutionally deficient in failing to raise objections during the punishment phase of the trial.

Mosley’s attorneys have raised similar claims, saying his trial attorneys were deficient for not objecting to victim impact testimony from the officer’s wife and for not calling witnesses to testify about Mosley’s drug and alcohol addictions.

Moore, a 1982 Madison graduate, was the first officer to respond to an attempted bank robbery when he was shot four times by Mosley.

The 32-year-old father of three died shortly after the shooting.

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