Post by Anja Nieser on Oct 1, 2006 6:25:57 GMT -5
ALABAMA----new execution date
Oct. 26 execution date set for Larry Hutcherson
The Alabama Supreme Court has set an Oct. 26 execution date for death row
inmate Larry Hutcherson, who was convicted in the 1992 murder of
89-year-old Irma Gray in Mobile County.
Hutcherson's execution by lethal injection is scheduled on that date for 6
p.m. at Holman Correctional Facility near Atmore, Department of
Corrections spokesman Brian Corbett said in a statement Thursday. After
the state Supreme Court reversed Hutcherson's 1st conviction, he pleaded
guilty to capital murder in 1996, and a Mobile County jury recommended the
death penalty by an 11-1 vote. Then-Circuit Judge Braxton Kittrell adopted
the jury's decision and sentenced Hutcherson to death.
Hutcherson, 37, has exhausted his appeals, officials said, and there are
no stays of execution, nor any proceedings pending in any court.
On Oct. 21, Attorney General Troy King asked the Supreme Court for a
second time to set an execution date for Hutcherson.
According to King, the elderly victim was "almost decapitated" when her
throat was cut and that she also was beaten and sodomized after Hutcherson
broke into her home.
"The citizens of this state, especially the family of Irma Gray, have the
right to the timely administration of Hutcherson's sentence," King said in
an earlier statement.
(source: Associated Press)
Oct. 26 execution date set for Larry Hutcherson
The Alabama Supreme Court has set an Oct. 26 execution date for death row
inmate Larry Hutcherson, who was convicted in the 1992 murder of
89-year-old Irma Gray in Mobile County.
Hutcherson's execution by lethal injection is scheduled on that date for 6
p.m. at Holman Correctional Facility near Atmore, Department of
Corrections spokesman Brian Corbett said in a statement Thursday. After
the state Supreme Court reversed Hutcherson's 1st conviction, he pleaded
guilty to capital murder in 1996, and a Mobile County jury recommended the
death penalty by an 11-1 vote. Then-Circuit Judge Braxton Kittrell adopted
the jury's decision and sentenced Hutcherson to death.
Hutcherson, 37, has exhausted his appeals, officials said, and there are
no stays of execution, nor any proceedings pending in any court.
On Oct. 21, Attorney General Troy King asked the Supreme Court for a
second time to set an execution date for Hutcherson.
According to King, the elderly victim was "almost decapitated" when her
throat was cut and that she also was beaten and sodomized after Hutcherson
broke into her home.
"The citizens of this state, especially the family of Irma Gray, have the
right to the timely administration of Hutcherson's sentence," King said in
an earlier statement.
(source: Associated Press)