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WE DEMAND DNA TESTING BEFORE ANY EXECUTION OF THOMAS ARTHUR.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - JULY 7, 2008 WE DEMAND DNA TESTING BEFORE ANY EXECUTION OF THOMAS ARTHUR. Allowing the State of Alabama to execute Thomas Arthur in the full knowledge that strong doubtexists concerning the certainty of his guilt, doubt which could be resolved with DNA testing,amounts to nothing less than murder. Thomas Arthur was convicted of the killing of Troy Wicker on the basis of evidence supplied bythe victim`s wife. She initially claimed a stranger other than Arthur, had broken into her home,raped her and killed her husband. She was charged and convicted of the murder. In eight swornstatements, she stated that Arthur was in no way connected with the crime. However, after tenyears in prison for her husband`s murder, she altered her story and overturned her previoustestimony...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on July 07, 2008 (boomark / email).