Kentucky Supreme Court delves into DNA evidence, attorney performance in death penalty case
A skeptical group of justices from the Kentucky Supreme Court is weighing whether DNA testing results would impact the death sentence of a man convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a woman from northern Kentucky 27 years ago.
Justices quizzed the attorney for 57-year-old Gregory L. Wilson on Thursday about what, if any, effect DNA testing on evidence would have on the conviction.
Wilson was convicted on Oct. 31, 1988, of kidnapping and killing Deborah "Debbie" Pooley of Kenton County 19 months earlier. Biological samples recovered from Pooley's car have not been tested before.
Prosecutors say Wilson raped and later strangled Pooley while an accomplice drove. Her body was found in Indiana two weeks later.
Kentucky is under a judge's order halting all executions in the state.
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