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.
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davidpdx
(22,000 posts)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/
Judi Lynn
(160,219 posts)delrem
(9,688 posts)It truly is sickening. All the pandering is even more sickening.
quadrature
(2,049 posts)in Mo. and Ga.?