Supreme Court rejects another final appeal for state death-row inmate; 13 now eligible for execution date
WASHINGTON — James Chandler Ryder, convicted of killing a woman and her son over some personal belongings in 1999, is now the 13th Oklahoma death row inmate who has exhausted appeals and is eligible for an execution date.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined, without comment, to review Ryder’s appeal. It was the fifth time since the high court’s new term began in October that justices have rejected the final appeal in an Oklahoma capital case.
In such instances, the Oklahoma attorney general typically moves quickly to request an execution date from the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals.
But problems with lethal injections in Oklahoma have led to a pause in executions while the state Department of Corrections reviews the process.
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