Michelle Lyons Quotes (7 Quotes)

We're watching the situation, but there has not yet been any court ruling that has impacted Texas.

They do review those claims, they do look into them, they do investigate them. We're disappointed with the verdict, and we'll be looking next week at our next course of action, on whether we'll be able to appeal or not.

Yes, it can happen if the offender's sexual crime was not against a child.

Housing the death row population is different than housing any of the other prison populations. We are conscious that we are dealing with a population that really doesn't have anything to lose, so our security measures are pretty stringent.

Except for a protest organized by the Texas Moratorium Network and more media at the scene tonight, TDCJ officials say they're expecting nothing out of the ordinary. We recognize that this is a higher-profile execution than other ones we've had this year, and we do have a plan to up the security, ... We're expecting more protesters than usual and more media, but we don't know how much.

He was at a grocery where a shopper saw him and recognized him from a photo in a news report.

Our Office of Inspector General, which is our investigative division, is looking into all possibilities. We're not even sure if he had feigned an illness because he had this planned or if he was simply going along and saw an opportunity.