Friday, 28 August 2015

Judge denies bid to halt Oklahoma inmate's execution

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Officials transport Benjamin Robert Cole into a Pittsburg County courtroom, Friday, Aug. 28, 2015, in McAlester, Okla., before a hearing about his sanity. Cole is scheduled to die for killing his 9-month-old daughter in 2002. (AP Photo/Sean Murphy)McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — A judge has ruled against an Oklahoma death row inmate whose attorneys were seeking to halt his upcoming execution for the 2002 killing of his 9-month-old daughter.
District Judge James Bland denied the request by Benjamin Cole's attorneys on Friday. They wanted Bland to order the prison warden to find that Cole is insane.
Cole's attorneys claim he's not sane enough to be executed. They are expected to appeal the judge's ruling to the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals.
The 50-year-old Claremore man is set to be executed by lethal injection on Oct. 7. He was convicted of first-degree murder in Rogers County for killing his daughter, Brianna Cole.
Brianna's spine was broken and her aorta torn after she was forcefully bent backward. Cole has not denied killing the child.
FILE - In this file photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, Benjamin Cole is shown in a photo dated June 29, 2011. Attorneys for Cole, an Oklahoma man sentenced to die for killing his 9-month-old daughter in 2002, say their client has become insane while in prison, and his execution must be halted. (Oklahoma Department of Corrections Photo via AP, File)
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