Morganelli v. Casey

CRAIG, President Judge.

These proceedings present important questions of constitutional and statutory interpretation with respect to carrying out sentences of death in criminal cases.

The Governor of the Commonwealth, as respondent here, has presented a Motion to Open1 this court’s peremptory judgment in mandamus, entered April 21, 1994 pursuant to Pa.R.C.P No. 1098, directing the issuance of execution warrants in two criminal cases involving death sentences. Petitioner John M. Morganelli, District Attorney of Northampton County and prosecutor in the cases involved, is the party who sought the…