Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> Capital Defense Weekly

Criminal Law

: Capital Defense Weekly

Alabama Supreme Court refuses to set date for Arthur

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

via wire stories: The Alabama Supreme Court has denied a request from Attorney General Troy King to set another execution date for convicted killer Thomas D. Arthur. In a 6-2 decision Tuesday, the court ruled the state must wait for a lower court to determine whether Arthur will get access to DNA evidence. Arthur has on three occasions come within a day of being executed for the 1982-murder-for-hire killing of Troy Wicker of Muscle Shoals. Just days before he was scheduled to be executed on July 31, another inmate claimed he, not Arthur, was the killer, and the state Supreme Court blocked the execution a day before it was to happen. Arthur’s attorneys have asked for access to evidence in the case they say can be tested to determine whether the other inmate’s story is credible.continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on September 26, 2008 (boomark / email).