11-20-2013, 11:01 AM
^ Hold the presses...change of plan. Joseph Paul Franklin was executed this morning, after all.
Quietly and without comment, The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a federal appeals court ruling that overturned two stays granted Tuesday evening by district court judges in Missouri.
This US Supreme Court ruling is important, as many states struggle to find acceptable methods to carry out scheduled executions since Europe cut off supplies of the traditional and preferred death drug.
With the overturning of the district court's stay in Franklin's case, no defendant has yet succeeded in delaying execution by appealing the new methods/drugs of execution, AFAIK, though a few have now tried.
Quietly and without comment, The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a federal appeals court ruling that overturned two stays granted Tuesday evening by district court judges in Missouri.
This US Supreme Court ruling is important, as many states struggle to find acceptable methods to carry out scheduled executions since Europe cut off supplies of the traditional and preferred death drug.
With the overturning of the district court's stay in Franklin's case, no defendant has yet succeeded in delaying execution by appealing the new methods/drugs of execution, AFAIK, though a few have now tried.