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Callahan Execution Stayed

Callahan Execution Stayed http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/uncategorized/callahan-execuion-stayed/Thursday, January 31st, 2008 6:22 pm | Jason Harrow | The Supreme Court has just issued an order staying the execution in the case of James Callahan, which we wrote about earlier here. No dissents were recorded. The full text of the order can be found after the jump ORDER IN PENDING CASE 07A630 CALLAHAN, JAMES V. ALLEN, COMM?R, AL DOC, ET AL. The application for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice Thomas and by him referred to the Court is granted pending the timely filing and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari. Should the petition for a writ of certiorari be denied, this stay shall terminate automatically...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on February 02, 2008 (boomark / email).