PHILADELPHIA — The state’s high court on Wednesday halted Pennsylvania’s first scheduled execution in more than a decade, at least temporarily sparing the life of a man who said the two men he killed had molested him.
With hours remaining until Terrance ‘‘Terry’’ Williams’ death warrant expired, the state Supreme Court denied a last-minute appeal by Philadelphia prosecutors to overturn a lower court ruling and proceed with the execution.
Williams, 46, of Philadelphia, killed two men in his teens.
A state judge found late last week that prosecutors withheld evidence from Williams’s capital murder trial in 1986, including evidence the victim in that case was molesting teen boys....
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With hours remaining until Terrance ‘‘Terry’’ Williams’ death warrant expired, the state Supreme Court denied a last-minute appeal by Philadelphia prosecutors to overturn a lower court ruling and proceed with the execution.
Williams, 46, of Philadelphia, killed two men in his teens.
A state judge found late last week that prosecutors withheld evidence from Williams’s capital murder trial in 1986, including evidence the victim in that case was molesting teen boys....
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