Posted on 12/07/2006 2:27:58 PM PST by Zakeet
Less than a day before Jerome Henderson was scheduled to die for the 1985 stabbing death of a neighbor, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a stay of his execution by lethal injection.
Henderson, 47, was set to be executed Tuesday morning for the aggravated murder and robbery of 26-year-old Mary Acoff during a break-in at her Cincinnati home on March 3, 1985. He was also convicted of the attempted rape of Acoff, whose 10-year-old daughter found her lying in a pool of blood, nude from the waist down.
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Earlier this year, Henderson joined a lawsuit brought by fellow Ohio death row inmate Richard Cooey to challenge the constitutionality of Ohio's lethal injection protocol.
On Friday, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals granted Henderson's request for a stay to allow him to pursue his claims. The state appealed the decision to the Supreme Court to request a rehearing on the matter, which the Supreme Court rejected Monday.
As of now, the fate of Henderson and the other inmates represented in the lethal-injection challenge will depend on the outcome of the suit.
"We are asking for time to litigate his claim that the method of execution in Ohio amounts to cruel and unusual punishment and causes a great deal of pain," Henderson's lawyer, David Stebbins, told CourtTVnews.com. "The stay is good as long as the lethal injection lawsuit lasts."
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Another ****head escapes justice.
Mary Acoff was unavailable for comment.
After he was convicted, DNA testing revealed that sperm found on Acoff belonged to her boyfriend and not to Henderson.So do they have the right guy, or don't they?
Mary didn't get to plea her case before any court.
I say torture the dang idiot.
So was the boyfriend thoroughly checked out?
Not familiar with the details of this case obviously.
Can someone clarify?
He had her blood on his clothing. She may have had sperm from having had sex with her boyfriend, but that doesn't mean he didn't kill her while robbing her.
The only reasoning behind the stay is to argue that the death penalty is cruel, not that he didn't do the crime.
Hopefully they didn't just dismiss this appeal without comment, because they want to say, clearly, that the death penalty by injection IS NOT cruel and unusual.
In other words, they may be thinking of that travesty of a California decision a while back. It seems that the law once more needs some clarification.
I am not a big fan of the Death Penalty, but if any state wants an effective death penalty provision, they should have a list of available execution options. If lethal injection is objectional to the court, move down the list to hanging, then firing squad or guillotine or a helicopter drop, or whatever.
12 ga shotgun
Apply directly to the forehead
Apply directly to the forehead
Apply directly to the forehead
You will feel no pain mi amigo, none whatsoever....
"We are asking for time to litigate his claim that the method of execution in Ohio amounts to cruel and unusual punishment and causes a great deal of pain," Henderson's lawyer, David Stebbins, told CourtTVnews.com.
Anything that takes less than 2 days is right for this scum.(1 day for his lawyer)
Yea, but only after a barbed wire catheter is inserted and removed. Repeat as necessary.
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