Florida Death Row Inmate Requests Stay Of Execution
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TAMPA (CBSMiami/AP) — Lawyers for a Florida Death row inmate scheduled to be executed next month have asked the state's Supreme Court for a stay.
Oscar Ray Bolin, 53, and his lawyers filed a motion Tuesday with the state's highest court, saying that he plans to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
On Dec. 17, the state court denied Bolin's appeal based on alleged new evidence. The court ruled Bolin should be put to death for the December 1986 murder of Teri Lynn Matthews. Matthews was abducted in Pasco County, raped and then beaten and fatally stabbed.
In his recent motion for a stay, Bolin said an Ohio inmate confessed to Matthews' murder and that he will be bringing that evidence to the federal court.
Bolin is scheduled to be executed on January 7th, 2016.
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