Bishops Want Killer’s Execution Stopped

Item: Bishops ask Gregoire to stop execution /AP

More Info: The state’s Catholic bishops, including Spokane Bishop William Skylstad, are asking Gov. Chris Gregoire to commute the death sentence of Darold Ray Stenson. The bishops are asking that Stenson instead receive life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Stenson, 55, is set to be executed Dec. 3. He was convicted of aggravated murder for the 1993 shooting deaths of his wife and a business partner while his three young children slept nearby in his Clallam County farmhouse.

Question: Should Gov. Gregoire heed the plea of the Catholic bishops and commute murderer Stenson’s sentence?