By Jamie Burch
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Published: Mon, October 22, 2007 - 8:57 am
Last Updated: Mon, October 22, 2007 - 2:53 pm
Governor Bob Riley says the state will move forward with Thursday's scheduled execution of a convicted serial killer now that changes to Alabama's lethal injection procedure have been completed.Last month, Governor Riley ordered additional safeguards be added to ensure inmates are unconscious when a lethal combination of drugs are administered. Those safeguards have now been added so the state will move forward with the next scheduled execution, which is for Danial Siebert
on October 25th.Siebert was sentenced to die for the 1986 strangulation deaths 24-year-old Sherri Weathers, her two sons, 5-year-old Chad and 4-year-old Joey. Weathers was a student at the Alabama School for the Deaf in Talladega and had been dating Siebert. The bodies were found in her Talladega apartment several days after the three were killed.
Siebert was also convicted of two other murders and has claimed responsibility for as many as a dozen more.
Governor Riley rejected calls to spare Siebert because he has terminal cancer and would only live a few months if not executed. “I would in essence be commuting his sentence to life in prison and that is not the sentence he was given by a jury. His crimes were monstrous, brutal and ghastly.”
The change in Alabama's lethal injection procedure also lead to a 45-day stay of execution for convicted killer Thomas Arthur. Arthur was scheduled to die September 27th, the same day Governor Riley ordered the changes.
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