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| Pa. Supreme Court upholds Gov. Wolf's death penalty moratorium |
| By triblive.com- Matthew Santoni |
| Published: 12/22/2015 |
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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Monday upheld Gov. Tom Wolf's constitutional authority to grant temporary reprieves to inmates on death row. The case involved Terrance Williams, convicted of beating a man to death with a tire iron in 1984. With Williams' appeals exhausted, former Gov. Tom Corbett had scheduled execution for March 4. Wolf granted a reprieve Feb. 13, pending an overdue report and recommendations from the Pennsylvania Task Force and Advisory Committee on Capital Punishment. Wolf said he would use his constitutional power to grant reprieves to any inmate awaiting the death penalty, effectively putting a hold on all executions until the task force report addresses his concerns that Pennsylvania's capital punishment is too expensive and ineffective. He since has reprieved five convicted killers scheduled for execution. Read More. |
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