Today, August 9, in Nashville (state of Tennessee) to be executed 59-year-old Billy Center. In 1985, the father raped and killed 7-year-old girl was Babysitting while her parents weren’t home.
Billy Ray Irick is set to die by lethal injection at 7 p.m. – more than 30 years after he was convicted in the rape and murder of 7-year-old Paula Dyer in Knox County. https://t.co/yDr4onGu7a pic.twitter.com/Ab7QozltZZ
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Lawyers of the condemned literally at the last moment appealed to the Supreme court with a request to pardon their client, who has spent his life «suffered from psychosis». According to defenders, giving him the lethal injection violates the law prohibiting the execution of offenders with serious mental disorders.
Billy the father was sentenced to death for the rape and strangulation of 7-year-old Paula Dyer in Knoxville. Lawyers for the men more than 20 years trying to prove that the first defender has not provided the court with a long history of mental illness, which had suffered by the killer.
In turn, prosecutors in Tennessee said in court it was proved that the father was fully aware of his actions.
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As the Supreme court has rejected the petition of lawyers for a stay of execution of Hayrik now can only be the Governor of the state. If the execution did take place, it will be 15-m, the execution of a death sentence since the beginning of the year in the United States and the first in Tennessee since 2009.
Meanwhile, the Associated Press reporter for 30 years, has witnessed more than 400 executions.
