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Clemency Recommendation in Arkansas

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The Arkansas Democrat Gazette reports, "4-3 board vote urges killer be spared."In a 4-3 decision, citing ?unusual circumstances,? the Arkansas Parole Board recommended that Frank Williams Jr. should be granted clemency and spared from execution. Williams is scheduled to die Sept. 9 for the 1992 shooting death of Lafayette County farmer Clyde Spence, for whom Williams had worked under a prison work-release program. The board voted late Monday after hearings at the Varner Supermax Unit near Grady and in Little Rock. On Tuesday afternoon, the votes were announced and delivered to Gov. Mike Beebe, who will make the final decision. In the space for comments on his voting sheet, Parole Board Chairman Leroy Brownlee wrote ?should serve life w / o? parole, ?unusual circumstances...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 06, 2008 (boomark / email).