>Users:   login   |  register       > email     > people    


Lawyers For Ga. Death Row Inmate Try Last-Ditch Legal Maneuvers Ahead Of Tuesday Execution
By gpb.org- Adam Ragusea
Published: 06/16/2014

MACON, Ga. —

Lawyers for a Georgia death row inmate scheduled to die Tuesday evening will try some last-ditch maneuvers in court Monday.

Marcus Wellons is set to be the first person executed with Georgia's new secret source of lethal injection drugs.

He would also be the first person executed in the United States since Clayton Locket, who died April 29 of a heart attack after Oklahoma prison officials failed to kill him with lethal injection drugs also sourced from anonymous pharmaceutical companies.

Lawyers need to know where the drugs are coming from, said Jen Moreno, staff attorney for the Death Penalty Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law and consultant for Wellons' defense team.

Read More.





Comments:

No comments have been posted for this article.


Login to let us know what you think

User Name:   

Password:       


Forgot password?





correctsource logo




Use of this web site constitutes acceptance of The Corrections Connection User Agreement
The Corrections Connection ©. Copyright 1996 - 2025 © . All Rights Reserved | 15 Mill Wharf Plaza Scituate Mass. 02066 (617) 471 4445 Fax: (617) 608 9015