Pope Benedict XVI and the Catholic bishops of Kentucky have asked Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear to commute the death sentence of Gregory Wilson, whose execution is expected to take place on September 16.
Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville and the Rev Marian McClure Taylor, executive director of the Kentucky Council of Churches, met Governor Beshear in Frankfort to outline their legal and moral objections to the execution of Wilson, whose attorneys say is mentally disabled and who has asked for DNA testing that he says would exonerate him.
