The U.S. Supreme Court docket on Wednesday rejected a request to halt the execution of convicted killer Glen Rogers, setting the stage for him to be put to dying by deadly injection at 6 p.m. Thursday at Florida State Jail.
The Supreme Court docket, as is widespread, didn’t clarify the explanations for turning down a last-ditch petition and a movement for keep of execution filed Friday by Rogers’ attorneys. The Florida Supreme Court docket additionally refused to halt the execution final week.
Rogers, 62, is scheduled to be the fifth inmate executed this 12 months in Florida. He was despatched to Loss of life Row for the November 1995 stabbing dying of Tina Marie Cribbs in a Tampa motel room after they met at a bar.
Rogers stole Cribbs’ automotive and was later arrested in Kentucky after main police on a high-speed chase, in accordance with a courtroom doc. He additionally was convicted of murdering a lady in California and was a suspect in murders in Louisiana and Mississippi.
In asking the U.S. Supreme Court docket to dam the execution, Rogers’ attorneys targeted on him having a medical situation referred to as porphyria and the potential interplay with etomidate, the primary drug administered within the three-drug execution course of. Rogers’ attorneys contended that he ought to obtain an evidentiary listening to about whether or not utilizing the drug would result in ache in violation of the U.S. Structure’s eighth Modification ban on merciless and weird punishment.
Info on the Mayo Clinic web site described porphyria as a “group of uncommon issues that outcome from a buildup of pure chemical compounds known as porphyrins within the physique.” It stated excessive ranges of porphyrins may cause issues within the nervous system and pores and skin. Rogers’ attorneys stated it has affected his liver.
However in a response filed Monday on the U.S. Supreme Court docket, Florida Legal professional Basic James Uthmeier’s workplace stated Rogers has lengthy been conscious of his porphyria prognosis and that, beneath state regulation, courts can’t take into account an “premature” request for an evidentiary listening to.
“Rogers admitted that he has been conscious of his porphyria prognosis since no less than 1997 and but, he failed to lift the declare till after his dying warrant was issued,” the response stated. “Rogers’ deadly injection problem is little greater than an assault on settled (authorized) precedent and doesn’t warrant … evaluate, notably when he was dilatory in bringing this declare.”
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a dying warrant for Rogers on April 15.
DeSantis final week additionally signed a dying warrant for Anthony Wainwright, who was convicted of kidnapping a lady in 1994 from a Winn-Dixie grocery store car parking zone in Lake Metropolis and raping and murdering her in rural Hamilton County. Wainwright is scheduled to be executed June 10.
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