Thursday, May 24, 2012

Death Row Inmate Wins Hearing

{Louisville, Kentucky}...The Kentucky Supreme Court has ordered a hearing on whether death row inmate 55 year old Gregory L. Wilson is ineligible for execution because he may be mentally disabled. Wilson is awaiting execution in the 1987 murder, kidnapping, rape and robbery of 36 year old Deborah Pooley in Kenton County. Kenton Circuit Judge Gregory Bartlett rejected Wilson's mental disability claim in September 2010, just days before Wilson was scheduled to be executed. Another judge halted the execution after finding problems with the method Kentucky uses.