U.S. High Court Blocks Execution
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The U.S. Supreme Court blocked the execution of a borderline mentally retarded man shortly after it had reinstated his execution order.
The court issued the second ruling to allow it time to review the case.
Antonio Richardson, 26, had been scheduled to be put to death by injection early today at the Potosi Correctional Center for his role in the 1991 rapes and deaths of two sisters. The young women were pushed off an abandoned Mississippi River bridge in north St. Louis.
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