25 Years On Death Row Will End Tonight

By: Jamie Burch | WKRG
Published: February 12, 2009

» Comments | Post a Comment

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a stay of
execution for Danny Joe Bradley, who is scheduled to be put to
death Thursday for the rape and strangulation of his 12-year-old
stepdaughter.
The 49-year-old faces lethal injection at Holman prison after 25
years on Alabama's death row.
Bradley's attorney sought a Supreme Court stay of execution to
allow more court review of Bradley's civil rights lawsuit on a
DNA-related issue from his trial in Calhoun County.
Lower courts had already denied that request.
Both the Alabama Supreme Court and the Atlanta-based 11th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals earlier refused to block Bradley's
execution - the second of five set in Alabama in the first five
months of this year. The state had no executions last year.
Bradley was caring for Rhonda Hardin and her 11-year-old brother
on Jan. 24, 1983, in Piedmont when the girl was slain.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)