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| Supreme Court Won't Block Execution |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 05/16/2001 |
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The U.S. Supreme Court and a federal judge Monday refused to block the execution of a schizophrenic who is scheduled to be put to death Tuesday night for the 1983 murder of a Cleveland delicatessen owner. Lawyers for Jay D. Scott had asked the nation's highest court to block his death sentence because they claimed it would be cruel and unusual punishment to execute an inmate with a severe mental illness. The court declined to hear the case. Scott's attorneys then asked U.S. District Judge Kathleen M. O'Malley in Cleveland to block the execution and review the procedure by which Ohio courts determined that Scott was competent to be put to death. O'Malley denied both requests late Monday night. Timothy Sweeney, one of Scott's attorneys, would not comment on either of the court's actions. Scott, 48, would be the first Ohio inmate to be put to death against his will in 38 years. Last month, he came within about an hour of being executed before the Ohio Supreme Court stepped in. His court-appointed attorneys asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case after the Ohio Supreme Court ruled on Friday that there was no evidence that Scott was incompetent to face execution under Ohio law. A Cuyahoga County Common Pleas jury convicted Scott of aggravated murder for killing Vinnie Prince, 74, during a robbery of her delicatessen. |
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