Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Attorneys Seek Halt Of Executions
KENTUCKY....
A group of three dozen Kentucky defense attorneys, members of the Kentucky Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, gathered outside the courthouse in Louisville Wednesday afternoon calling on Governor Steve Beshear to halt all executions while the American Bar Association studies Kentucky's use of capital punishment. The rally came as the Kentucky Supreme Court weighed whether to lift a stay of execution for 53 year old Gregory L. Wilson who was convicted in 1988 of kidnapping, raping and murdering 36 year old Debbie Pooley a year earlier in Kenton County. Wilson had been set to die Thursday by lethal injection, but a state judge stopped the proceedings, citing concerns about Kentucky's method and the inmate's mental state.
A group of three dozen Kentucky defense attorneys, members of the Kentucky Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, gathered outside the courthouse in Louisville Wednesday afternoon calling on Governor Steve Beshear to halt all executions while the American Bar Association studies Kentucky's use of capital punishment. The rally came as the Kentucky Supreme Court weighed whether to lift a stay of execution for 53 year old Gregory L. Wilson who was convicted in 1988 of kidnapping, raping and murdering 36 year old Debbie Pooley a year earlier in Kenton County. Wilson had been set to die Thursday by lethal injection, but a state judge stopped the proceedings, citing concerns about Kentucky's method and the inmate's mental state.
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