Saturday, March 31, 2007

Bruce Webster's execution date stayed (?)

[UPDATE]

Our guru on executions appears to be leaning towards calling this one stayed. The grounds seem to be lethal injection related but our sources are themselves unsure. Webster’s pen friends report he is also writing them telling them it has been stayed.

BoP still has a press release indicating there is a pending execution date. AP ran a story over the weekend indicating the date is still scheduled for later this month.

More info as things develop. I would note that this has to be the quietest stay in some time & those in the know are keeping a tight lip. Comments are open for those who know more.

For now we have pulled the execution dates here and at Capital Defense Weekly!

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The International Justice Project has posted that the mid April execution date for Bruce Webster has been stayed. Note, however, the usual sources relied upon for execution date, such as the Death Penalty Information Center's Pending Execution data & Amnesty International, are still reporting it as a serious execution date. Anyone with germane information is invited to post in the comments
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Anonymous said...

I just called the Board of Prisons using the number on the December Press release, and they told me that Bruce Webster's date has been stayed and no new date has been set. Capital Defense Weekly has posted the stay order (from February 16th) on their blog today. It appears that the AP got it wrong and threw everyone off. We will update our log to reflect the stay.

--John Carella
Program to Abolish the Death Penalty
Amnesty International USA

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