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Execution Not Stayed

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CARSON CITY. Nev.--The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday rejected an appeal by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to stay the execution of convicted murderer Jesse Bishop, who says he wants to be executed as scheduled.

The court voted 7-1 that Bishop's defenders have no legal standing in the case. The execution is scheduled for Monday, and will be the first in Nevada since 1961, and the first in the nation since John A. Spenkelink was put to death in Florida, last May.

Bishop was convicted for murder of David Ballard during a hold-up in Las Vegas in 1977, and has opposed the NAACP's efforts to prevent his execution.

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