Execution date set in February for Wyoming's only death-row inmate

A judge says Dale Wayne Eaton, Wyoming's only death-row inmate, is scheduled to be put to death on Feb. 12.

Natrona County District Judge David Park set the date during a death warrant hearing on Monday.

Diane Courselle, director of the University of Wyoming's Defender Aid Program, says they'll go to federal court to ask for a stay of execution.

Eaton has been on death row since 2004 for the kidnapping, rape and murder of 18-year-old Lisa Marie Kimmell, who disappeared in 1988 while driving from Denver to Billings, Mont.

The Wyoming Supreme Court has twice rejected appeals filed by Eaton's attorneys.

Source: Associated Press, December 16, 2009