MONGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – The Latest on the execution of an Alabama inmate scheduled for Thursday (all times local): 10:20 p.m. The U.S. Supreme Court has lifted the stay on an Alabama execution that had been scheduled for this week. The court late Tuesday vacated an emergency stay that had been granted Friday to Robert Melson. The 11th U.S. Circuit…
The U.S. Supreme Court has turned down a long shot request to reconsider the appeal of an Alabama inmate scheduled to be executed by lethal injection next month. Justices on Monday refused the rehearing request by Tommy Arthur, who has had seven execution dates postponed. The court in November stayed Arthur’s execution to consider whether to hear the appeal centered…
Here is a timeline of the execution of an Alabama Death Row inmate last night at Holman Prison in Atmore. ATMORE, Ala. (AP) – The Latest on the scheduled execution of an Alabama inmate (all times local): 11:15 p.m. A man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk has been put to death in Alabama, hours after the state’s execution…
Alabama is preparing to execute an inmate who was convicted in the 1982 killing of a man in a murder-for-hire arrangement. Tommy Arthur is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at 6 p.m. Thursday. Arthur, now 74, was convicted of murdering Troy Wicker in 1982 as the man slept inside his Muscle Shoals home. Investigators said Arthur was having an…
Alabama is asking an appellate court to let the November execution of an inmate go forward. The state attorney general’s office on Friday asked the 11th U.S. circuit Court of Appeals to reject Tommy Arthur’s request for a stay. The state argues Arthur has used abusive litigation tactics to “escape” execution. Arthur had been scheduled for execution on six previous…
A 74-year-old Alabama inmate scheduled to be executed in November is asking an appellate court to review his claim that Alabama’s lethal injection procedure is inhumane. Lawyers for Thomas Arthur filed the appeal with the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Arthur’s attorneys argued a federal judge prematurely dismissed Arthur’s challenge and had misapplied a requirement for inmates to name…
Is the death penalty in America gradually dying? There have been just two executions since May 1. And the total for 2016 probably will hit a 25-year low. Execution drug shortages, errors in death chambers and legal challenges to sentences imposed by judges have contributed to a dramatic decline in the number of states that are carrying out executions. Just…
The U.S. Supreme Court says death-row prisoners must have “rational understanding” that they are about to be executed and why, but lawyer for an Alabama inmate say their client fails that test. A lawyer for 65-year-old Vernon Madison on Thursday told a panel of 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges that stroke-induced dementia has made Madison unable to understand…
The Alabama attorney general’s office is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to let the execution of an inmate proceed. The attorney general’s office on Thursday afternoon asked the high court to vacate a stay of execution for Vernon Madison issued hours earlier by the 11th U.S. Court of Criminal Appeals. Three judges on the 11th Circuit said there should be…
Lawyers for an Alabama death row inmate are asking a federal court to stop his execution next week, saying he is incompetent because of mental illness, strokes and dementia. Attorneys for 65-year-old Vernon Madison filed the emergency stay request Wednesday in federal court in Mobile. Madison is scheduled to get a lethal injection May 12. He was convicted in the…
