The Texas Department of Criminal Justice says Halprin is scheduled to be put to death on October 10. A TDCJ spokesman said, in an email Thursday to The Associated Press, that a judge in Dallas signed the order on July 3.
Halprin, who’s Jewish, has a federal appeal pending that alleges a different judge who oversaw his capital murder trial was anti-Semitic and used racial slurs. Ex-Judge Vickers Cunningham has denied the allegations.
Halprin and six others in December 2000 escaped from the Connally Unit. Irving police Officer Aubrey Hawkins was shot while investigating a Christmas Eve robbery at a sporting good store.
An attorney for Halprin didn’t immediately return a message Thursday.
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