Post by SoulTrainOz on Jun 18, 2006 3:53:19 GMT -5
slayings.
Attorney General Jim Hood filed a motion Thursday with the state Supreme Court seeking to set an execution date of July 14 for death row inmate Bobby Glen Wilcher of Lake.
Wilcher's motion to drop all appeals was granted Tuesday in the U.S. District Court.
Wilcher, 44, was convicted for the brutal 1982 killings of two Scott
County women Velma Odell Noblin and Katie Belle Moore he asked for a ride in a Forest bar. After meeting the women at the nightclub, Wilcher persuaded them to drive him home and diverted them down a deserted road.
Moore, 47, was the mother of four children. Noblin, 52, was the mother of 10 children. They had been reported missing after being seen at Robert's Drop Inn in Forest late Friday night, March 5, 1982.
Their blood-soaked bodies were found sprawled along the muddy ditch banks of the dirt road. It had rained all Friday night before the discovery on Saturday afternoon. Medical examiners would determine that each victim had been stabbed and slashed more than 20 times.
Wilcher, then a 19-year-old dropout with a 9-month-old daughter wascharged in connection with the crimes. He had been stopped by Forest police for speeding in what would later be proved to be Mrs. Noblin's brown 1978 Datsun. The arresting officer described Wilcher as "saturated with blood."
In separate trials in 1982, Wilcher was convicted of capital murder for both killings and sentenced to death in both cases. Wilcher's been at the State Penitentiary at Parchman since 1982 his convictions on appeal.
In 1993, new sentencing trials were ordered, one in Harrison County and the other in Rankin County. Wilcher was re-sentenced to death in 1994 in both cases. His case has remained on appeal in the federal courts since that time.
(source: Clarion-Ledger)
Attorney General Jim Hood filed a motion Thursday with the state Supreme Court seeking to set an execution date of July 14 for death row inmate Bobby Glen Wilcher of Lake.
Wilcher's motion to drop all appeals was granted Tuesday in the U.S. District Court.
Wilcher, 44, was convicted for the brutal 1982 killings of two Scott
County women Velma Odell Noblin and Katie Belle Moore he asked for a ride in a Forest bar. After meeting the women at the nightclub, Wilcher persuaded them to drive him home and diverted them down a deserted road.
Moore, 47, was the mother of four children. Noblin, 52, was the mother of 10 children. They had been reported missing after being seen at Robert's Drop Inn in Forest late Friday night, March 5, 1982.
Their blood-soaked bodies were found sprawled along the muddy ditch banks of the dirt road. It had rained all Friday night before the discovery on Saturday afternoon. Medical examiners would determine that each victim had been stabbed and slashed more than 20 times.
Wilcher, then a 19-year-old dropout with a 9-month-old daughter wascharged in connection with the crimes. He had been stopped by Forest police for speeding in what would later be proved to be Mrs. Noblin's brown 1978 Datsun. The arresting officer described Wilcher as "saturated with blood."
In separate trials in 1982, Wilcher was convicted of capital murder for both killings and sentenced to death in both cases. Wilcher's been at the State Penitentiary at Parchman since 1982 his convictions on appeal.
In 1993, new sentencing trials were ordered, one in Harrison County and the other in Rankin County. Wilcher was re-sentenced to death in 1994 in both cases. His case has remained on appeal in the federal courts since that time.
(source: Clarion-Ledger)