Post by SoulTrainOz on Jul 27, 2006 6:24:20 GMT -5
Wants contact visits with daughter
By SHEILA BURKE, The Tennesean
Death-row inmate Stephen Hugueley, who told The Tennessean that he was ready to die and would not fight his scheduled Aug. 15 execution date, has changed his mind.
The inmate resumed his legal battle because prison officials would not let him have contact visits with his only daughter and his spiritual adviser, the adviser said Tuesday.
This means the execution will have to be stayed because he is legally entitled to go through the appeals process.
In contact visits, prisoners are allowed to sit in the same room with others, and family members can touch and hug the inmates. Hugueley has sent numerous letters to the newspaper saying he wants to hug and kiss his family members before he dies.
"If they would allow his family and me to see him, he wouldn't do what he's doing," said Franklin minister Ron Mosby, Hugueley's spiritual adviser.
Mosby said the condemned man warned prison officials that they were causing him to waste thousands of dollars of taxpayer money because they wouldn't let him have the same rights as other death-row inmates.
Hugueley, 38, has been convicted of killing his mother, an inmate and a counselor in prison, and trying to take the life of another prisoner. He was not allowed to sit in the same room with a Tennessean reporter who interviewed him in the spring at the Brushy Mountain Correctional Complex in East Tennessee.
He has since been moved to Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in west Nashville to prepare for the execution. But because of his discipline problems in the past in the prison system, and because he's new to Riverbend, he's not allowed to have contact visits with his family, Department of Correction spokeswoman Dorinda Carter said.
It's up to the warden of Riverbend whether Hugueley can have a contact visit with his daughter, she said. .
Source : The Tennesean
www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060726/NEWS01/6072603
By SHEILA BURKE, The Tennesean
Death-row inmate Stephen Hugueley, who told The Tennessean that he was ready to die and would not fight his scheduled Aug. 15 execution date, has changed his mind.
The inmate resumed his legal battle because prison officials would not let him have contact visits with his only daughter and his spiritual adviser, the adviser said Tuesday.
This means the execution will have to be stayed because he is legally entitled to go through the appeals process.
In contact visits, prisoners are allowed to sit in the same room with others, and family members can touch and hug the inmates. Hugueley has sent numerous letters to the newspaper saying he wants to hug and kiss his family members before he dies.
"If they would allow his family and me to see him, he wouldn't do what he's doing," said Franklin minister Ron Mosby, Hugueley's spiritual adviser.
Mosby said the condemned man warned prison officials that they were causing him to waste thousands of dollars of taxpayer money because they wouldn't let him have the same rights as other death-row inmates.
Hugueley, 38, has been convicted of killing his mother, an inmate and a counselor in prison, and trying to take the life of another prisoner. He was not allowed to sit in the same room with a Tennessean reporter who interviewed him in the spring at the Brushy Mountain Correctional Complex in East Tennessee.
He has since been moved to Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in west Nashville to prepare for the execution. But because of his discipline problems in the past in the prison system, and because he's new to Riverbend, he's not allowed to have contact visits with his family, Department of Correction spokeswoman Dorinda Carter said.
It's up to the warden of Riverbend whether Hugueley can have a contact visit with his daughter, she said. .
Source : The Tennesean
www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060726/NEWS01/6072603