MS Readies For 3rd Execution In 3 Weeks
Death row inmate Robert Simon Jr. will ask a federal appeals court to stop his execution now scheduled for Tuesday at the state penitentiary at Parchman.
Oxford attorney Tom Freeland says the notice of appeal has been filed with the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. He declined to discuss on what grounds Simon will seek to stop his execution.
Simon was sentenced to death for the 1990 killings of three members of a Quitman County family. He got a life sentence in the death of a fourth family member.
Simon has been moved to a holding cell near the execution room at the prison. The penitentiary will be placed on lockdown Monday, the usual procedures the day before a scheduled execution.
