A central Pennsylvania man on death row for killing his ex-lover's husband in 1998 is again asking a judge to hasten his execution.
Fifty-three-year-old William Wright III became frustrated with appeals process and in 2007 asked a federal judge in Johnstown to force the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to decide his case.
When that court upheld his conviction and death sentence, a federal judge nonetheless stayed the execution pending federal appeals _ which Wright's attorneys sought but he didn't want. Finally, a judge in Blair County, where Wright was convicted, in 2012 ruled Wright wasn't mentally competent to represent himself.
Wright's been fighting that and the Altoona Mirror reported he's filed another request Thursday to hasten his execution.
Wright has claimed his various attorneys have wrongly focused on his mental state instead of simply arguing his innocence.
