The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has chastised two Texas attorneys in connection with a last-minute effort to stay the execution of a death row client, though it stopped short of sanctioning them.

Seth Kretzer and Carlo D’Angelo represented Rosendo Rodriguez III, who was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in 2009 for the murder of Summer Baldwin, a pregnant prostitute he killed and stuffed in a suitcase.

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