Federal Judiciary

Callahan Execution Stayed

By Akin Gump Supreme Court Practice Group

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. In the event the petition for a writ of certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court.

Full post as published by SCOTUSBLOG on January 31, 2008 (boomark / email).