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| Lawyers: Executing Georgia inmate would be unconstitutional |
| By njherald.com- Kate Brumback |
| Published: 12/01/2016 |
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ATLANTA (AP) — The act of executing a Georgia death row inmate scheduled to die next week would violate his constitutional rights, his lawyers argued in a court filing Wednesday. William Sallie, 50, is scheduled for execution Tuesday. He was convicted in the March 1990 slaying of his father-in-law. While his lawyers assert that the imposition of a death sentence by a jury is, itself, unconstitutional, that's not the issue they're raising in the petition filed the Superior Court of Butts County, which is the county where Georgia's death row is located. Instead they argue that the act of carrying out the execution next week in Georgia would be unconstitutional. The state attorney general's office did not immediately have a comment Wednesday, spokeswoman Katelyn McCreary said in an email. Read More. |
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