Post by sclcookie on Jun 2, 2006 0:45:30 GMT -5
Oklahoma Attorney General: Execution Date Requested for Patton
Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson today asked the Oklahoma Court of
Criminal Appeals to set an execution date for Oklahoma County death row
inmate Eric Allen Patton.
Patton, 49, was convicted of the Dec. 16, 1994, murder of Charlene
Elizabeth Kauer, 56. Patton stabbed Kauer numerous times during a robbery
at Kauers Oklahoma City home.
Edmondson requested the date after the U.S. Supreme Court today denied
Patton's final appeal.
The state "requests that this Court set an execution date ... for sixty
days after May 30, 2006, or at the earliest date this Court deems fit, so
that the lawful conviction and sentence of the State of Oklahoma may be
carried out," according to the state's application for execution date.
"It is the practice of this office, before an execution date is requested,
to examine each case to determine if the testing of DNA evidence should
occur," said Edmondson. "We have determined, after a thorough review of
this case, that DNA testing would be of no value and would have no
relevance as to actual innocence. I see nothing that should stand in the
way of this execution being carried out."
There has currently been one Oklahoma inmate executed this year.
Pottawatomie County death row inmate John Albert Boltz is scheduled to be
executed Thursday.
(source: All American Patriots)
Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson today asked the Oklahoma Court of
Criminal Appeals to set an execution date for Oklahoma County death row
inmate Eric Allen Patton.
Patton, 49, was convicted of the Dec. 16, 1994, murder of Charlene
Elizabeth Kauer, 56. Patton stabbed Kauer numerous times during a robbery
at Kauers Oklahoma City home.
Edmondson requested the date after the U.S. Supreme Court today denied
Patton's final appeal.
The state "requests that this Court set an execution date ... for sixty
days after May 30, 2006, or at the earliest date this Court deems fit, so
that the lawful conviction and sentence of the State of Oklahoma may be
carried out," according to the state's application for execution date.
"It is the practice of this office, before an execution date is requested,
to examine each case to determine if the testing of DNA evidence should
occur," said Edmondson. "We have determined, after a thorough review of
this case, that DNA testing would be of no value and would have no
relevance as to actual innocence. I see nothing that should stand in the
way of this execution being carried out."
There has currently been one Oklahoma inmate executed this year.
Pottawatomie County death row inmate John Albert Boltz is scheduled to be
executed Thursday.
(source: All American Patriots)