By AP/KWMU
Jefferson City, Mo. – The Missouri Supreme Court refuses to halt the execution of Stanley Hall, despite claims that the condemned killer is mentally retarded.
The court offered no explanation in its one-line ruling issued Monday afternoon.
Hall's attorney, Nelson Mitten, then appealed to the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis. Governor Blunt is also weighing a clemency request.
Hall is scheduled to die early Wednesday at the Potosi Correctional Center for the 1994 murder of Barbara Jo Wood of St. Louis County.
In 2001, the state barred the execution of the mentally retarded. A year later, the U.S. Supreme Court did the same.