Inmate Wins Stay to Allow for DNA Testing
A death row inmate condemned for killing a woman after slipping away from a work-release prison in 1977 was granted a stay to allow for DNA tests.
Gov. Jeb Bush granted the reprieve 90 minutes before Amos King was to be executed by injection. It was the third stay this year for King. Courts ordered halts to scheduled executions in February and July.
King, 48, was convicted of raping and murdering Natalie Brady, 68, in her Tarpon Springs home in 1977. He was caught, wearing bloody clothes, trying to slip back in to the prison.
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