CNN is reporting that the U.S. Supreme Court has granted a stay for an execution in Georgia that was scheduled to involve an LSU School of Medicine alumnus.Dr. Carlo Russo, a 1986 graduate, is the president of Rainbow Medical Associates, a limited liability company contracted with the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in providing medical physicians to oversee state executions.
“Dr. Larry Hollier, Chancellor of LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, says that Dr. Carlo Musso is a graduate of the LSU School of Medicine and an active member of the LSU Medical Alumni Association,” LSUHSC said in a statement to The Daily Reveille. “We do not know anything about a case in Georgia and therefore cannot provide any information about it.”The U.S. Supreme Court called an emergency session and decided to postpone the 6 p.m. execution of Troy Anthony Davis, who is suspected in killing a police officer.