PHOENIX (AP) — Lawyers for an Arizona death row inmate are turning to a federal appeals court in an effort to block his scheduled execution Wednesday.
The emergency motion filed appeals a federal trial judge's denial of Donald Beaty's request for an injunction on grounds that his rights could be violated by a last-minute switch of execution drugs.
The appeal to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals comes after the federal trial judge, the Arizona Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday denied various requests made on behalf of Beaty.
He's scheduled to be executed for the 1984 murder of 13-year-old Christy Ann Fornoff of Tempe.
azconan posted at 3:02 pm on Wed, May 25, 2011.
I hope he dies a very painful death. Id rather we hang him by his neck in a public square and we all get to take turns with a stick smacking his body until he is dead. Then after we bring him to the pound and feed his carcass to the dogs ! He deserves nothing. no mercy. No stay. And his lawyers should be hung with him !