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| Inmate Wants To Drop Appeals, Face Execution |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 04/18/2005 |
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A second inmate on Connecticut's death row has announced his desire to forgo further appeals and face execution, possibly setting the stage for another flurry of court action like the one surrounding serial killer Michael Ross. Sedrick Cobb, sentenced to death for kidnapping, raping and killing a 23-year-old woman in 1989, said he wants to drop his appeals in a letter to Superior Court Judge Stanley T. Fuger Jr., The Hartford Courant reported in Thursday's editions. The court received the letter on April 4. Fuger presided over a lengthy hearing last year on Cobb's claim that he was not adequately represented by his lawyers during his trial. Ross, on death row for killing four young women in eastern Connecticut in the early 1980s, faces lethal injection on May 11. He would be the first person executed in New England in 45 years if the death sentence is carried out as planned. Ross' case is now tied up in a hearing in New London Superior Court to determine if he is competent in deciding to forgo his remaining appeals. Ross decided to drop his appeals last year and his execution was set for Jan. 26, but the competency issue has delayed the date several times. |
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