The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has upheld Gov. Tom Wolf’s decision to grant a reprieve to death-row inmate Terrance Williams, while declining to address the propriety of Wolf’s moratorium on the death penalty in Pennsylvania.
All five justices of the state’s high court agreed that Wolf had the authority to issue a reprieve in Williams’ case. When Wolf announced the reprieve in February, he said he would grant a reprieve in each future scheduled execution while he awaits a report on the death penalty from a state task force.
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