Texas halts controversial execution

A Texas court has halted the execution of a man who killed the father of a federal appeals court judge just hours before he was due to die by lethal injection.

Napolean Beazley was only 17 when he killed the man during a botched carjacking.

Beazley, now 25, never denied the killing, but his appeal gave 10 reasons for a reprieve, including constitutional claims, allegations of false testimony, jury bias and his age at the time.