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The Arkansas Lethal Injection Challenge

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The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports, "To fight execution case shift requested," written by Charlie Frago.A federal public defender asked the Arkansas Supreme Court on Wednesday to let another state appeals court decide whether to allow the state to execute condemned killer Frank Williams Jr. next week. In separate motions, Williams? attorney, Julie Brain, asked the court to transfer the case to the Arkansas Court of Appeals and deny a request by Attorney General Dustin McDaniel for the high court to allow the state to put Williams to death on schedule Tuesday. Williams, 42, was convicted of murdering Lafayette County farmer Clyde Spence in 1992 by shooting him in the face. Williams had broken Spence?s tractor and said Spence refused to pay him...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 04, 2008 (boomark / email).