Execution halted; lawyer says FW man is retarded County court to determine killer's mental capacity 01/22/2003 By JASON TRAHAN / The Dallas Morning News The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Tuesday stayed the execution of a 41-year-old Fort Worth murderer after his attorney argued that the man is retarded. Elkie Lee Taylor, 41, a former laborer, had been scheduled to die Thursday for using a coat hanger to strangle retiree Otis Flake, 64, to death in 1993 in Fort Worth. Mr. Taylor and an accomplice robbed the man's home of a television, pots, pans, dishes and other items....