Gavin argues that a Cherokee County Judge last week denied Gavin’s request to waive filing fees so he could challenge that county circuit court’s jurisdiction over his conviction and sentencing.
Published: Jul. 17, 2024, 8:48 p.m.An Alabama inmate, in a handwritten motion early Wednesday evening, appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to block his lethal injection execution set for Thursday in the 1998 murder of a man at a bank ATM in Cherokee County.to justices just before 7 p.m. Wednesday seeking a stay of execution. He apparently filed the appeal without help from his lawyers.
Gavin argued in his motion to the U.S. Supreme Court that the Cherokee County judge shouldn’t have denied his request to waive the fees. In that same lawsuit, the lawyers said Gavin didn’t expect any further appeals. But Gavin then filed the handwritten appeal on behalf of his self to the Cherokee County judge.Gavin, 64, was sentenced to death for the March 1998 murder of William Clayton Jr. in Cherokee County. He is set to be executed July 18, but the timeframe could go into July 19 if there are delays. He is set to die by lethal injection at William C.
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