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Push to Stop Arkansas' Next Scheduled Execution

2:40 p.m. - Push to Stop Arkansas' Next Scheduled Execution http://arkansasmatters.com:80/content/fulltext/news/?cid=88871 Reported by: KARK 4 News Wednesday, Jul 23, 2008 @02:42pm CST Attorneys for the first inmate scheduled to be executed in Arkansas in three years have petitioned for a reduction in his sentence to life imprisonment without parole. Governor Mike Beebe, in the first death warrant he has signed since taking office 19 months ago, directed on June 20 that Frank Williams, Jr. be put to death by lethal injection on September 9. The state?s effort to execute Williams and his lawyers? attempts to spare him come amid new research indicating Arkansans have profound misgivings about capital punishment? its fairness, its expense and, notably, the strong possibility that innocent persons can and have been put to death...continue to full post

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