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In Pennsylvania

By Steve Hall

"Death row inmates stay indefinitely: No one has been executed in Pennsylvania since 1999," is the title of Torsten Ove's report for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Richard Baumhammers and Ronald Taylor have a lot in common. Both are racially motivated mass killers who slaughtered innocents within a month of each other a decade ago, Mr. Baumhammers targeting minorities and Mr. Taylor targeting whites. Both are on death row. And neither is likely to be executed for many years, if ever. Gov. Ed Rendell signed a death warrant for Mr. Baumhammers, 44, last week, but he admitted the execution isn't likely to happen on March 18, the scheduled date for lethal injection. That's because the state has what the governor calls a "de facto" moratorium on executions...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 25, 2010 (boomark / email).