Kelley Henry: Last News

Death Row resident will live to while away another day after his lethal injection appointment was botched at the last minute yesterday (April 21).And now his lawyers are demanding an immediate investigation into the cocktail of drugs set to be used which they assert would have 'tortured' their client. Triple killer Oscar Smith was set to die for murdering his estranged wife Judith Smith and her sons Jason Burnett, 13, and Chad Burnett, 16, inside their home in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, on October 1, 1989 but was saved at the last minute.According to Governor Bill Lee, Smith's reprieve was "due to an oversight in preparation for lethal injection."He continued: "I am granting a temporary reprieve while we address Tennessee Department of Correction protocol.

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With less than a week to go before her scheduled execution at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, on Jan. 12, attorneys for Lisa Montgomery are pleading with President Trump to agree to her clemency petition and save her life. Montgomery's Tennessee-based lawyer, Kelley Henry, stressed to Fox News on Wednesday that they are not in any way requesting the 52-year-old have her sentenced commuted, but to take the fast-approaching death sentence off the table in favor of life behind bars without parole.

The only woman on federal death row was set to be executed by lethal injection on Jan. 12, but Lisa Montgomery, 52, got a brief reprieve when, on Christmas Eve, a federal court pushed the date back.

Lisa Montgomery's new execution date for her conviction in a Missouri womb-raiding case that horrified investigators and the small town where it happened has been put off until next month. The U.S.

A federal judge temporarily halted the planned execution of Lisa Montgomery after her attorneys contracted coronavirus.  U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss issued the ruling Thursday from Washington.The move bars the Bureau of Prisons from carrying out the Dec.