The Nation : Killer Loses Reprieve Bid
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to halt the execution of James David Raulerson, set for this morning, but a second condemned killer got an indefinite reprieve from Florida’s electric chair. By a 6-2 vote, the nation’s high court denied Raulerson, 33, a stay of execution for the 1975 killing of a Jacksonville policeman. Larry Joe Johnson, who murdered a Florida gas station attendant in 1979, got an indefinite stay of execution from the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta.
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