Court Opinion

ID: 9746569
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-27 14:27:21.529571+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:25:14.791320
License: Public Domain

FLAHERTY, Chief Justice,
concurring.
I am forced to concur, although I believe the record, state and federal, demonstrates that Gary Heidnik, as found by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, “... is presently suffering from mental illness in the form of paranoid schizophrenia ...,” and, in my view, is insane, and I cannot stand by and say nothing while an insane person is put to death by the state contrary to the mores of civilized society. The court correctly observes, however, that, “... a request for ‘next friend’ status was never addressed to *201the common pleas court and is not presented for decision in this Court.” The stay, thus, must be vacated on the present state of the record. We have no jurisdiction to do otherwise.