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: Capital Defense Weekly

stays galore from Washington, US Military and Louisiana

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

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Three stays of note, those of Messrs. Gray (US Mil) & Stenson (Wash), as well as Ms. Franks (La). As to Mr. Stenson’s stay the notes: Federal and state judges have indefinitely delayed the scheduled Dec. 3 execution of Darold Stenson for the 1993 shooting deaths of his wife and a business partner in Clallam County. The separate stays were issued Tuesday by judges in federal court in Yakima and in Clallam County Superior Court. U.S. District Judge Lonny Suko issued his order in a conference call with lawyers. State Attorney General Rob McKenna said his office was asking an appeals court to vacate Suko’s order and allow the execution to proceed as scheduled. Stenson’s lawyers this week asked Suko for a temporary restraining order blocking the execution on the grounds that the state last month revised its procedure for administering lethal injections, without previously announcing any changes or going through a rule-making process...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on November 26, 2008 (boomark / email).