NATION IN BRIEF : ARIZONA : Execution Appeal Goes to High Court
A last effort to save triple murderer Donald Eugene Harding from the gas chamber went to the U.S. Supreme Court, part of a battle over what would be Arizona’s first execution in 29 years. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco granted Harding a stay of execution Thursday night. If it remains in effect, the stay would prevent the execution scheduled for Monday at the state prison in Florence, Ariz. Immediately after the stay was granted, the Arizona attorney general’s office announced it would ask the Supreme Court to lift the stay. The appeal went to Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who hears emergency appeals from the 9th Circuit.
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