IPFS News Link • Death Penalty
Reprieved Oregon death row prisoner granted right to be executed
• http://www.rawstory.com, By Paul HarrisAmerica’s emotional debate over the role of the death penalty has taken a strange new twist after a convicted killer has been granted the legal right to insist on his right to be executed.
Now a court has granted Haugen, 49, the right to reject Kitzhaber’s clemency move, which was issued just weeks before he was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection last December.
Kitzhaber had vowed that no death sentences would be carried out in Oregon while he was in office.