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Thursday 1 december 2016
Lawyers: Judge adds $5M to

Executing Georgia inmate would be unconstitutional McQueary’s $7M
Penn State verdict
KATE BRUMBACK higher chance of getting
Associated Press death. MARK SCOLFORO
ATLANTA (AP) — The act of “Thus by ordering the in- Associated Press
executing a Georgia death fliction of (Sallie’s) execu- HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A
row inmate scheduled to tion on December 6, 2016, former Penn State assistant
die next week would vio- Georgia has selected Mr. football coach’s treatment
late his constitutional rights, Sallie to be executed from by the school after Jerry
his lawyers argued in a a pool of individuals assem- Sandusky was arrested
court filing Wednesday. bled by a flawed scheme,” entitles him to more than
William Sallie, 50, is sched- his lawyers argue. $12 million, a judge said
uled for execution Tues- That Georgia obtains an Wednesday in a ruling that
day. He was convicted in execution order from a substantially increased last
the March 1990 slaying of judge simply by request- month’s jury award.
his father-in-law. ing one and then sets and Judge Thomas Gavin ruled
While his lawyers assert that carries out an execution in in favor of Mike Mc-
the imposition of a death a very short timeframe de- Queary’s whistleblower
sentence by a jury is, itself, nies a death row inmate claim , adding more than
unconstitutional, that’s not due process, the petition $5 million to the $7.3 million
the issue they’re raising in says. Under state law, a jury verdict for defamation
the petition filed the Supe- Georgia execution order and misrepresentation.
rior Court of Butts County, sets a seven-day period for “Only when the ‘Sandusky
which is the county where the execution to be carried Matter’ became public
Georgia’s death row is lo- out that “shall commence was Mr. McQueary sub-
cated. Instead they argue not less than ten nor more jected to disparate treat-
that the act of carrying out than 20 days from the date ment and adverse em-
the execution next week in of the order.” ployment consequences,”
Georgia would be uncon- By contrast, Texas law says Gavin wrote. He said the
stitutional. This Georgia DOC photo shows William Sallie. Lawyers for the an execution date may not decision to order Mc-
Queary to keep out of
The state attorney gen- Georgia death row inmate scheduled to die next week say the be earlier than the 91st day athletic facilities after plac-
eral’s office did not imme- act of executing their client would be unconstitutional. Sallie is after a judge enters the or- ing him on administrative
diately have a comment to be executed Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016. He was convicted in the der. Even Texas, which has leave with pay in Novem-
Wednesday, spokeswom- March 1990 slaying of his father-in-law. executed far more inmates ber 2011 “was the equiva-
(Georgia Department of Corrections via AP)
an Katelyn McCreary said than any other state since lent of banishment.”
in an email. out,” his lawyers argue. tion date set, while Sallie the death penalty was re- The judge said McQueary
Executing Sallie would be While a Georgia death row is the only one in Georgia instated in 1976, gives in- was humiliated in several
arbitrary, and thus would inmate is generally set for and his execution date was mates a longer window of respects, including “being
amount to unconstitutional execution soon after his set within days of his ap- time to file challenges in told to clean out his office
cruel and unusual punish- post-conviction appeals peals ending. the courts, Sallie’s lawyers in the presence of Penn
ment, and would also vio- are exhausted, those in They also cite studies that argue. State personnel, an action
late his rights to due pro- other states often linger have found that the death After cutting his in-laws’ that suggests he had done
cess, the petition says. in prison long beyond the penalty is disproportionate- phone lines and breaking something wrong and was
“The dramatic difference completion of those ap- ly imposed based on the into their house about 12:45 not to be trusted.”
between prisoners under peals, in effect a life prison race of the defendant and a.m. March 29, 1990, Sallie McQueary has testified
sentence of death in Geor- sentence, Sallie’s lawyers the victim, as well as where went to the master bed- that in February 2001 he
gia and those in almost ev- argue. They note that there in the state the crime hap- room and shot John and reported to then-head
ery other jurisdiction that are at least 18 California pened. When the victim is Linda Moore, according to coach Joe Paterno and
has the death penalty is death row inmates who white and the crime hap- a Georgia Supreme Court to two high-ranking ad-
that the vast majority of have completed their ap- pened in a rural area, both summary of the case. John ministrators that he had
death sentences else- peals but who remain on of which are true in Sal- Moore died from his injuries, just seen Sandusky, at the
where will never be carried death row with no execu- lie’s case, there is a much and his wife was injured. time retired as the school’s
defensive football coach,
Lawsuits challenge abortion restrictions in 3 states sexually abusing a boy in
a team shower. Those of-
ficials did not contact po-
DAVID CRARY pregnancy,” said Planned lenged in Missouri are simi- “A woman must be able to lice, but when investigators
AP National Writer Parenthood’s chief medi- lar to those that the high make health decisions at began looking into new
NEW YORK (AP) — Taking cal officer, Dr. Raegan Mc- court struck down in Texas. different points in her preg- complaints about San-
the offensive after Elec- Donald-Mosley. They require abortion clinics nancy that are best for her dusky nearly a decade
tion Day setbacks, Planned McDonald-Mosley was to meet physical standards circumstances, including later, someone suggested
Parenthood and its allies joined at a teleconfer- for surgical centers and whether to end a pregnan- they interview McQueary.
filed lawsuits Wednesday ence by attorneys from mandate that their doctors cy, without interference McQueary has testified he
in North Carolina, Missouri the American Civil Liberties have admitting privileges in from politicians,” said Irena heard sexually suggestive
and Alaska challenging Union and the Center for nearby hospitals. Como, staff attorney for sounds when he went into
laws that they view as un- Reproductive Rights, which Partly as a result of those the ACLU of North Carolina. the locker room late on
constitutional restrictions on are partners in the litiga- laws, only one licensed The lawsuits were an- a Friday night, then saw
abortion. tion. The attorneys said the abortion clinic remains nounced as supporters of Sandusky abusing the boy
“We are going to fight lawsuits are a follow-up to in operation in Missouri. abortion rights brace for in the shower. He did not
back state by state and a major U.S. Supreme Court To reach that clinic in St. renewed anti-abortion ef- physically intervene but
law by law until every per- decision earlier this year Louis, some women must forts at the state and feder- said the two separated
son has the right to pursue that struck down tough drive more than 300 miles, al level in the aftermath of and he left the athletics
the life they want, including abortion laws in Texas. Planned Parenthood offi- the sweeping Republican facility, highly disturbed by
the right to decide to end a The restrictions being chal- cials said. victories on Election Day. what he had witnessed.