Ellington

Attorneys representing death-row inmate Joseph Daniel Burn are asking Gov. Haley Barbour to delay Burn's July 21 execution date, The Associated Press reported today.

Burn's attorney Glenn S. Swartzfager, director of the Office of Capital-Post Convention, told the Associated Press that he is asking Barbour to delay the execution so that Burns can undergo a mental evaluation, which will be used to filed a clemency petition.

Burns, 42, was convicted in 1996 of the stabbing death of Tupelo motel manager Floyd Melvin McBride two years earlier.