Execution of Killer, 23, Blocked
United Press International
HUNTSVILLE, Tex. —
An apprentice butcher scheduled to die after midnight for murdering and mutilating a woman while her children slept nearby today was granted a stay by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Bryon R. White.
Jay Kelly Pinkerton, 23, would have become the youngest killer put to death since the reinstatement of capital punishment in 1976. The stay was granted without comment and pending the disposition of Pinkerton’s case by the Supreme Court.
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