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Article: Supreme Court rules against terminally ill inmate on Alabama death row, but no execution soon
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- November 6, 2007
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An Alabama death row inmate who wants his cancer to kill him before the state does lost an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, but he still will not be executed "for months or years," a prosecutor said.
Quadruple murderer Daniel Lee Siebert, 53, has had pancreatic cancer since at least June, according to court documents. That form of cancer can spread quickly and cause death within weeks. He has been fighting in court to die naturally.
Alabama courts had ruled that Siebert missed a deadline for challenging his conviction at the state level in the 1986 killing of Linda Ann Jarman. Alabama officials argued the missed deadline barred him from filing a ...