Debate Rages In KY Over Bills Aimed at Death Penalty Appeals
Kentucky inmates may loose their right to file habeas corpus petitions.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Diana Harrington waited 22 years to see her family's killer put to death in March.For Harrington, who doesn't consider herself a death penalty advocate, that was too long to wait for Donald Ray Wallace Jr.'s sentence to be carried out in the 1980 deaths of Harrington's sister, Theresa Gilligan; her husband, Patrick Gilligan; and their young children, Lisa and Gregory, while burglarizing their Evansville, Ind., home...Now, Harrington is in favor of pending legislation in Congress that would curtail a death-row inmate's ability to appeal in federal court. The bills, though, have drawn the ire of state Supreme Court judges around the country, including Kentucky's chief justice.
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