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| Death row inmate's execution delayed |
| By News Channel 5 |
| Published: 05/11/2006 |
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KNOXVILLE, TN - Tennessee officials were preparing to execute death row inmate Sedley Alley next week. He was convicted of murdering Suzanne Collins in 1985. Collins was sexually assaulted with a stick, and strangled to death. Alley later confessed. Attorneys for Alley are trying to get the courts to let some of the evidence undergo DNA testing. But the stay issued Thursday was not granted because of DNA testing. Alley's attorneys are challenging Tennessee's lethal injection protocol. The stay of execution will remain until the U.S. Supreme Court has time to make a decision. A ruling on whether the drugs used in lethal injection violates the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment is pending in the U.S. Supreme Court. |
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