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| Supreme Court Refuses to Block Execution of Gulf War Vet |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 03/19/2003 |
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The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to block the execution of a decorated Gulf War veteran who claims severe brain damage from his exposure to Iraqi nerve gas led him to kill. Unless President Bush intervenes, Louis Jones Jr. will be executed by injection Tuesday at the U.S. Penitentiary near Terre Haute, Ind. As the execution neared, Jones met Monday with his 22-year-old daughter, his attorney and two spiritual advisers. Attorney Timothy Floyd said his client was trying to remain hopeful as he awaited word on whether Bush would consider his request to commute his death sentence to life in prison. ''He was really remarkably strong and I think at peace with whatever happens. I attribute that to his deep faith I think that's sustained him through this,'' Floyd said. Jones, 53, admitted kidnapping 19-year-old Pvt. Tracie Joy McBride from a Texas Air Force base, raping her and beating her to death with a tire iron. His attorneys filed a late appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the high court refused Monday to grant a stay blocking the execution. The court did not comment on its decision. Jones' appeal claimed the federal death penalty is unconstitutional under a 2002 court ruling. In his request for executive clemency, Jones argues he suffered brain damage from sarin nerve gas wafting from an Iraqi weapons depot destroyed by American troops in March 1991 after the 1991 Gulf War ended. |
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