By AP
Louisville, KY – Pope Benedict the Sixteenth and four Catholic bishops in Kentucky have asked Governor Steve Beshear to commute the death sentence of an inmate set to be executed September 16th.
Louisville Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz Thursday morning presented Beshear with a letter written on the Pope's behalf asking that 53-year-old Gregory L. Wilson not be executed because of legal issues surrounding his 1988 trial. Wilson was sentenced to death 22 years ago for the kidnapping, rape and murder of 36-year-old Deborah Pooley in northern Kentucky.