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Mississippi Execution Allowed

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That's the title of Lyle Denniston's latest post at SCOTUS Blog on the scheduled execution of Earl Berry. The Supreme Court refused in late afternoon Wednesday to delay the execution in Mississippi ? scheduled for 6 p.m. ? of Earl Wesley Berry, and also denied review of his two new appeals.  The full Court acted, and there was no indication of any dissent.  The order leaving intact a Mississippi Supreme Court ruling is here.  The order leaving intact a Fifth Circuit Court ruling is here. Both lower courts had found Berry?s latest challenges to be procedurally flawed. He was to be put to death by lethal injection for a murder committed in 1987.Today's earlier post is here.  It will be the second execution of 2008; the 1,101st since executions resumed in America in 1977...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 21, 2008 (boomark / email).