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    Expect an execution date fairly shortly. Election year.

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    Does Pennsylvania have the necessary drugs on hand to actually carry out an execution?

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    They use compounded drugs.

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    On November 26, 2014, Gamboa-Taylor filed an appeal before the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/cir...ts/ca3/14-9005

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    Execution date set for York mass murderer, though it's unlikely he will be be executed

    By Mike Argento
    The York Daily Record

    An execution date has been set for one of York County's most notorious mass killers.

    But, since Gov. Tom Wolf has set a moratorium on executions in the state, it is not likely that Paul Gamboa-Taylor will make his May 14 appointment in the state's death chamber.

    On Thursday, Department of Corrections Secretary John Wetzel signed what's called a Notice of Execution, setting an execution date for the 60-year-old mass killer. It is mostly a procedural matter. The law requires the corrections secretary to sign a warrant of execution when the governor does not take action within a specified period of time.

    On May 18, 1991, Gamboa-Taylor killed his 23-year-old wife, two of their children, ages 2 and 4, his 42-year-old mother-in-law and her 2-year-old son with a ball-peen hammer.

    Gamboa-Taylor pleaded guilty to five counts of first-degree murder and, in January 1992, received four death sentences and sentence of life without parole for his mother-in-law's death.

    Since 1976, when the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty, only three inmates have been executed in Pennsylvania, the last in July 1999. There are about 150 inmates on death row in the state.

    https://eu.ydr.com/story/news/2021/0...ly/7154284002/

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    Could PA bypass Wolf by appealing to the Supreme Court?

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    It dont think that would be possible. But it doesnt matter, they would still have no drugs to carry it out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alexander View Post
    Could PA bypass Wolf by appealing to the Supreme Court?
    No. Commonwealth v. Williams held that the governor's power to issue reprieves is unlimited.

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