Wilson v. Lane

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER STIEHL, District Judge:

INTRODUCTION

This case is before the Court on a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Petitioners, Miriam Wilson, Nadine Schnurstein, Ronald Barrow, Gloria Abbey-Lyles and Patricia Vader, bring this action individually, and as next-friends acting on behalf of Charles Walker, an Illinois death row inmate who is scheduled for execution by lethal injection on May 10, 1988.

This Court issued an Order requiring the petitioners to supplement their pleadings as to the issues of jurisdiction, standing and Walker’s competency. The Court heard oral argument on…