Sept 26 - Edward Harbison - TN -Stayed due to Judge ruling Lethal Injection "cruel and unusual"

Sept. 19, 2007, 4:17PM

Lethal injections unconstitutional, judge rules

Associated Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A federal judge has ruled that Tennessee's procedure for lethal injections is cruel and unusual punishment.

U.S. District Judge Aleta Trauger's ruling could halt an execution scheduled for next week.

A spokeswoman for the state attorney general's office said the office will decide whether to appeal after reviewing the decision.

Death row inmate Edward Jerome Harbison was scheduled to be executed early next Wednesday for the 1983 beating death of an elderly woman.

The order does not give him a stay of execution. The ruling says the death sentence remains until it can be lawfully executed by a valid method of execution.

Do Not Execute Edward Jerome Harbison!
 

On September 26, 2007, Tennessee is set to execute Edward Jerome Harbison for the January 15, 1983 murder of Edith Russell.
The state of Tennessee should not execute Harbison for his role in this crime. Executing Harbison would violate the right to life as declared in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and constitute the ultimate cruel, inhumane and degrading punishment. Furthermore, Harbison was not the only man supposedly involved in the crime; David Schreary was also a suspect though he was not convicted. Though initially Harbison confessed to the crime, he later retracted his statement, claiming that he only made it because the police threatened that if he did not confess to the crime, they would arrest his girlfriend Janice Duckett and take her children away. Janice Duckett testified under other that Edward was at her house the night of the murder.
 

Please click here to write to Gov. Phil Bredesen on behalf of Edward Jerome Harbison!
 
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