Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Beshear Signs Execution Warrant
KENTUCKY....
Wednesday, Governor Steve Beshear set a September 16th execution date for 53 year old Gregory L. Wilson who was sentenced October 31, 1988, to death for his part in the 1987 kidnapping, rape and murder of Deborah Pooley in Kenton County in Northern Kentucky. Investigators say Wilson and Brenda Humphrey forced Pooley, a Hamilton, Ohio, native who was living in Northern Kentucky, into the back seat of her car on May 29, 1987. Wilson raped and later strangled her while Humphrey drove. Brenda Humphrey, is serving a life sentence. Requests for execution dates are pending for Ralph Baze, convicted of killing a Powell County sheriff and deputy in 1992, and Robert Carl Foley of Laurel County, convicted in 1993 and 1994 of killing six people in two incidents. Beshear said he signed only one warrant because the state has enough sodium thiopental for just one execution. Kentucky's stock expires October 1st, and a new supply of the drug is not expected until early in 2011. The Cabinet's repeated attempts to obtain additional thiopental have so far been unsuccessful.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 10:07 PM 
