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Urgent Action for Thomas Arthur

http://www.thomasarthur.info/legal/urgentaction.htm 8 July 2008UA 195/08 Death penalty/Legal concernUSA (Alabama) Thomas Douglas Arthur (m), white, aged 66 Thomas Arthur is scheduled for execution on 31 July in Alabama. The state is pursuing his execution even though hisconviction was based mainly on the testimony of an admitted perjurer who had an incentive to lie at his trial. AlthoughDNA evidence exists which Thomas Arthur says could help demonstrate his innocence, the State of Alabama has notgranted his request to be allowed to conduct DNA testing of evidence relating to the crime. Thomas Arthur was sentenced to death for the 1982 murder of Troy Wicker. The victim?s wife, Judy Wicker, was alsoconvicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on July 22, 2008 (boomark / email).