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Alabama Supreme Court Stays Controversial Execution

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"Court Votes to Postpone an Execution in Alabama," is the New York Times report.Thomas Arthur, a death-row inmate in Alabama, was granted a last-minute reprieve by the State Supreme Court on Wednesday evening after another convict confessed to the murder for which Mr. Arthur was to be executed. Mr. Arthur, 66, was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at 6 p.m. Thursday at the state prison in Atmore, Ala., for the murder of his lover?s husband in 1982. He was paid $10,000 for killing the husband, Troy Wicker, 35, according to testimony from the woman who said she had hired him, Judy Wicker. On Monday, a convicted murderer serving a life sentence in Alabama stepped forward with a handwritten affidavit claiming that he, and not Mr...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 31, 2008 (boomark / email).