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Last week, Darold Ray Stenson--initially scheduled to be lethally injected by the state today for killing his wife and his business partner back in the early '90s--received two last-minute stays that pushed the execution date back indefinitely. However, the U.S. Supreme Court reviewed the federal stay order and deemed it "not warranted"; as of this morning, at least one of Stensen's temporary reprieves has now been lifted. Because the state stay is still in effect, Stenson still doesn't have a new execution date and remains moldering at Walla Walla. He's got 90 days before Clallam County can try again to get the remaining stay of execution lifted by the Washington state Supreme Court.

Darold Ray Stenson, convicted of murdering his wife and his business partner back in 1994, was finally given his execution date--December 3rd--after over a decade of a stayed sentence. That's a week from tomorrow, but now the Roman Catholic Church has stepped in to ask governor Gregoire if she will give Stenson life without parole instead of allowing the state to go through with the execution. We do not envy Gregoire this decision in the least; though Stenson has been found guilty by the courts, the death penalty is one of those punishments that simply cannot be undone.