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"11th Circuit lifts stay of execution for Alabama inmate"

"11th Circuit lifts stay of execution for Alabama inmate": The AP provides a report that begins, "A federal appeals court has lifted a stay of execution for James Harvey Callahan, who is scheduled to be executed Thursday, but it could be delayed again by the U.S. Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear oral arguments in a Kentucky challenge to lethal injection, a case that has delayed executions nationwide. Alabama uses lethal injection in its executions. In a 2-1 decision, the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday lifted the stay granted by U.S. District Judge Keith Watkins in Montgomery on Dec. 14. The court said Callahan waited too late to challenge the method of execution."

You can access today's ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit at this link.

Full post as published by How Appealing on January 30, 2008 (boomark / email).