Corey Hamilton’s Attorney Asks US Supreme Court To Block Execution
AP - 1/8/2007 9:32 AM - Updated 1/8/2007 9:36 AM
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Lawyers for condemned killer Corey Duane Hamilton are now asking the US Supreme Court to block his scheduled execution.
Hamilton is to die Tuesday night for the murders of four people during a robbery of a Tulsa fast-food restaurant in 1992.
His attorneys want the execution blocked to let the courts consider Hamilton's civil rights challenge to Oklahoma's lethal injection process.
The attorneys say the state's procedure creates an unnecessary risk that Hamilton would be conscious while the lethal drugs are administered.
A federal judge in Oklahoma recently denied a request to stop the execution saying the attorneys didn't prove Hamilton would suffer "torture or a lingering death."
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Corey Hamilton showed no mercy to the four victims he executed. I work in the neighborhood where these murders took place. No sympathy here.
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