eight months

heduled today to be the first Texas inmate executed by lethal injection in the past eight months, since the U.S.

Supreme Court issued a moratorium on the death penalty.

Chamberlain's attorneys filed a motion with the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Thursday to delay his execution.

The constitutionality of the lethal injection procedure used to execute death row inmates has again stalled what would have been the first execution of a Texas man in the past eight months.

On Thursday night, journalist Dahr Jamail spoke to a group of about 300 on campus, sharing his personal accounts of his eight months in Iraq.

A main focus of his talk being the media's coverage of the war, he spent more than 10 minutes criticizing the April 3 Daily Texan story "Young vets recount deployments," which was the second in a series about students who have served or are serving in Iraq.

Journalist Dahr Jamail, who worked for eight months as an unembedded journalist in Iraq, spoke to a packed auditorium Thursday night in the Jackson Geological Sciences Building.