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Monday, January 30, 2006
Ind. Courts - "Indiana Inmate Executed Amid Federal Court Drama"
Charles Wilson of the AP had a story this weekend tracking multiple courts' actions in the last minute appeals to stay the execution of Marvin Bieghler. It begins:
After two decades on Indiana's death row, Marvin Bieghler was executed after a late night of appeals, a stay and a reversal.By the end, Bieghler seemed to have had enough.
"Let's get it over with," was the 58-year-old man's final comment before he was executed early Friday for the 1981 murders of a Howard County couple.
Less than 90 minutes earlier, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a lower federal court order allowing him a new appeal.
Late Thursday, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago granted Bieghler a chance to challenge the legality of lethal injection. The Supreme Court rejected a similar appeal from Bieghler just hours earlier, and the Indiana attorney general's office turned to the justices again after the appellate order.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on January 30, 2006 09:22 AM
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