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SCOTUS grants last-minute execution stay in Alabama

By Douglas A. Berman

According to this new AP story, a "murderer scheduled to die in what would have been the nation's first execution in months won a last-minute reprieve Thrusday from the U.S. Supreme Court, prison officials said."  Here's more from the AP report:James Harvey Callahan, set to die at 6 p.m., was granted a stay, Holman prison warden Grant Culliver told officers on death row.  The inmate's attorney had asked the high court to halt the execution after a federal appeals court lifted a stay granted by a Montgomery judge.  It would have been the nation's first execution since Sept. 25, the day the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider whether lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment.  THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 31, 2008 (boomark / email).