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SCOTUS stays another execution

By cdw

from the wires: Two-time killer Freddie Eugene Owens has received an indefinite stay of his scheduled Friday execution from the U.S. Supreme Court. Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. signed the order Tuesday afternoon. Roberts ordered the stay to allow the Greenville man?s attorney time to raise constitutional issues to the high court dealing with his death sentence stemming from a 1997 robbery-murder on Laurens Road. In his order, Roberts wrote that should Owens? petition for a writ of certiorari be denied by the justices, the stay would automatically terminate. That would clear the way for the state Supreme Court to set another execution date. A writ of certiorari requests the Supreme Court to review a decision by a lower court. John Blume, a Cornell University law professor and death penalty opponent, filed the appeal...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on September 30, 2008 (boomark / email).