Tennessee’s governor announced on Aug. 13 that he won’t stop this week’s scheduled execution of an inmate who maintains his accomplice was the one who fatally stabbed a mother and her daughter in 1986.
Stephen West is set to receive a lethal injection Thursday at a maximum-security prison in Nashville. He was found guilty of the kidnapping and stabbing deaths of 51-year-old Wanda Romines and her 15-year-old daughter, Sheila Romines. He also was convicted of the teenager’s rape.
