Saturday, September 11, 2010
Execution Halted
KENTUCKY...
A judge has halted the execution of a Kentucky man who faced lethal injection on Thursday for a 1987 murder and kidnapping of a suburban Cincinnati woman.
Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd ruled the state's protocol for carrying out an execution is inconsistent with state law and doesn't provide a safeguard to prevent a mentally retarded or criminally insane inmate from being executed.
Shepherd's ruling comes six days before the state was set to execute 53-year-old Gregory L. Wilson at the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Eddyville.
Wilson was convicted in 1988 of kidnapping, raping and murdering 36-year-old Deborah Pooley in northern Kentucky. Pooley was from Hamilton, Ohio.
Wilson and two other inmates challenged how Kentucky put its protocol into place.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 5:22 PM 
