NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Supreme Court has delayed the execution of convicted killer Stephen Michael West.
West was set to die by lethal injection at 10 p.m. CST Tuesday for the 1986 stabbing deaths of Wanda Romines and her 15-year-old daughter Sheila Romines in Union County.
But the state's high court on Monday delayed the execution to allow a trial court to test the constitutionality of the state's new lethal injection procedure.
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In 2001, he was hours away from death when a judge granted him a stay so he could pursue federal appeals, which he has since completed. Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen declined to intervene when West's attorneys asked for clemency.