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onehandle

(51,122 posts)
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 11:43 PM Jun 2014

HIGH COURT REFUSES TO BLOCK EXECUTION IN GEORGIA

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has refused to grant a last-minute reprieve to a Georgia death row inmate who would be the first person executed in the United States since a botched lethal injection in Oklahoma seven weeks ago.

The justices turned down an appeal from Marcus Wellons, convicted in the 1989 rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl in suburban Atlanta.

Among his appeals was a challenge to the secretive process used by Georgia to obtain lethal injection drugs from unidentified, loosely regulated compounding pharmacies.

Wellons is one of three men scheduled to be executed in a 24-hour period starting Tuesday night. No one has been executed in the U.S. since April 29.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/high-court-refuses-block-execution-georgia

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HIGH COURT REFUSES TO BLOCK EXECUTION IN GEORGIA (Original Post) onehandle Jun 2014 OP
It is sad they still carry out such a barbaric act davidpdx Jun 2014 #1
One day this will have to change.We don't need to be primitive, & vicious.Tnx for the info. n/t Judi Lynn Jun 2014 #2
Jeez cries, but there isn't the humanity left to dignify a Veterinarian's service. delrem Jun 2014 #3
so how did things go? quadrature Jun 2014 #4

davidpdx

(22,000 posts)
1. It is sad they still carry out such a barbaric act
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 12:25 AM
Jun 2014

I don't agree with what he did, but he should have been left in prison to die rather than executed.

Update: Apparently the execution has already happened

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/breaking-news/wellons-files-federal-appeal-to-delay-execution-fo/ngMpK/

delrem

(9,688 posts)
3. Jeez cries, but there isn't the humanity left to dignify a Veterinarian's service.
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 01:24 AM
Jun 2014

It truly is sickening. All the pandering is even more sickening.

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