MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - The Alabama Supreme Court won't block
Thursday's scheduled lethal injection for 44-year-old Willie
McNair.
The court denied a stay of execution in an order Wednesday
morning.
McNair was convicted for the 1990 robbery and murder of 68-year-old Ella Foy Riley. The jury recommended life in prison without parole, but the judge sentenced him to death.
The prosecution contends the sentencing judge was correct in
overruling the jury's penalty because of the "unnecessarily
torturous" murder of the Abbeville woman, who was attacked in her
home and stabbed in the neck.
McNair faces execution at 6 p.m. Thursday at Holman Prison.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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Alabama Supreme Court Won't Stop Wednesday's Execution
Willie McNair will be executed for the 1990 murder of 68-year-old Ella Foy Riley.
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