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| Centobie execution scheduled today |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 04/28/2005 |
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A former police chief said he will wear an officer's cap and police in uniform also will be in Alabama's death chamber to witness Mario Centobie's scheduled execution today for killing a policeman in Moody. Centobie, 39, of Biloxi, Miss., was convicted and sentenced to death for killing Moody police officer Keith Turner in 1998 while a fugitive from Mississippi. His execution by lethal injection is set for 6 p.m. today at Holman prison near Atmore. On death row since Jan. 8, 1999, he has filed no appeal. A motion to block the execution filed by a federal defender in Montgomery without Centobie's permission was denied by U.S. District Judge David Proctor. "He has planned for his death, and expressed his desire not to spend the rest of his life in prison," the judge said in turning back the motion filed by Montgomery lawyer Katherine Puzone. Puzone claimed Centobie is mentally incompetent and unable to make his own decisions and that the state's lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment. Puzone appealed Proctor's ruling Wednesday to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. It was denied. |
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