Nebraska AG Asks Supreme Court to Reject Ryan Appeal
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ The Nebraska Attorney General's office has
asked the state Supreme Court to reject a request by death row
inmate Michael Ryan to put his upcoming execution on hold.
The Lincoln Journal Star reports that
Nebraska Solicitor General J. Kirk Brown filed his request Tuesday.
Ryan was sentenced to death for the 1985 cult-related murder of
a man and child near Rulo. His motion says Nebraska's lethal
injection protocol did not exist during his conviction, sentencing
and previous appeals. For that reason, he says, none of the grounds
for relief he's seeking could have been raised in previous pleas.
Brown argues that the Nebraska Supreme Court has repeatedly held
that the mode of execution is separate from the procedures a trial
court uses to sentence a defendant.
© Associated Press
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