So tomorrow is our deadline, or rather, the state's deadline, to do the right thing, the common sense thing, the decent thing. DNA testing takes about 2 weeks to come back with a result, and Sedley Alley is scheduled to be killed early on the morning of May 17th, so just over two weeks from today.

For those of you who haven't been following the case, Sedley Alley is sentenced to die for the 1985 abduction and murder of Suzanne Marie Collins, but recently disclosed documents, reports of the polices own surveillance and the coroner's report, demonstrate that, while Ms. Collins didn't die until at least 1:30am the police had Alley in custody at 12:15 and under surveillance thereafter, so there is some doubt here. When we add to this the fact that the only hair sample ever tested did not come back as a match for Alley, it only makes sense that we make sure, before we enact such a final sentence.

Alley's lawyers have not petitioned for a stay of execution and have found funding for the testing. All they are asking is, let us test the evidence! Yet, the state, so far, has denied their request. So we're coming down the the wire.

Right now, we could do the testing, and be absolutely sure if the right man is in prison, at NO COST to the state and with NO DELAY of the execution, if the DNA matches Alley. But in a day or so, that won't be true anymore. We'll have to have a stay if we want to do the right thing and be 100% certain. Can we really ask anything less when talking about life and death?