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Some states are moving forward with executions after the Supreme Court upheld the method of lethal injection used by Kentucky.
· Virginia has three scheduled executions:
May 27: Kevin Green, for the murder of a Brunswick County couple.
June 10: Percy Walton, for the murders of three neighbors in Danville.
July 24: Edward Nathaniel Bell, for the murder of a police officer in Winchester.
· Oklahoma has two requests for execution dates:
Terry Lyn Short, for setting a fire that resulted in a man's death.
Kevin Young, for the murder of a man during a botched robbery.
· Tennessee is considering lifting three stays of execution:
Paul Dennis Reed, for multiple murders committed while robbing fast-food restaurants across the state.
Pervis Payne, for the murders of a woman and her daughter.
Edward Jerome Harbison, for the beating death of an elderly woman during a burglary.
Other states are still evaluating their lethal-injection methods.
· Florida has no scheduled executions. The state has not executed an inmate since Angel Diaz in December 2006. His execution took twice the normal time, and witnesses said he made facial expressions when he should have been dead. Florida subsequently changed its lethal-injection procedures.
· Ohio has no scheduled executions. The state changed its lethal-injection procedures after Joseph Clark awoke during his execution, when anesthesia should have made him unconscious.
-- Darryl Fears
