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    Attorney General Says Execution Likely To Proceed

    LITTLE ROCK — Attorney General Dustin McDaniel said Friday he expects a judge’s ruling staying the execution of condemned killer Jack Harold Jones Jr. to be overturned and the execution to take place next week as previously scheduled.

    McDaniel’s office has asked the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis to give expedited consideration to its appeal of U.S. District Judge Leon Holmes’ ruling Thursday that stayed Jones’ execution. By 5 p.m. Friday the 8th Circuit had not issued a ruling.

    “We’ve notified the United States Supreme Court to be expecting that to come to them,” McDaniel told reporters Friday. “We are stationed at the office around the clock through the weekend, and we are prepared to do what we have to do leading up to the execution on Tuesday, which we still are preparing for and expect to occur.”

    Jones has filed a lawsuit alleging the state’s Methods of Executions Act, approved last year, is unconstitutional because it hinders his ability to pursue a legal claim by denying him access to the actual lethal injection protocol that will be used to execute him.

    Holmes said in his ruling Thursday that “the public interest would be served” if the court considers Jones’ claims.

    McDaniel said of the ruling, “I was disappointed, because there’s nothing new in the motion (for the stay). If we’re simply going to grant a stay every time someone files something that they’d like to have heard, then that could go on forever.”

    Jones also asked the Arkansas Supreme Court for a stay. The state’s highest court said Friday the issue was moot because of the stay in federal court.

    If the stay remains in place, at some point Gov. Mike Beebe will need to instruct the Department of Correction to stop its preparations. Spokesman Matt DeCample said the governor is monitoring the situation closely.

    “It would likely happen about the end of business on Monday” if the stay is not lifted by then, DeCample said.

    Jones was sentenced to die for raping and killing Bald Knob bookkeeper Mary Phillips and assaulting her daughter in 1995.

    http://swtimes.com/articles/2010/03/...s031310_07.txt

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    Court Declines to Lift Stay for Jones Execution

    The scheduled execution tonight of Jack Harold Jones Jr. will not occur. A statement from Gov. Mike Beebe’s office:

    The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals has sent word to the Attorney General’s Office that a ruling regarding the stay of execution for Jack Harold Jones issued by Judge Leon Holmes will not be forthcoming before tonight’s scheduled execution. Consequently, Governor Mike Beebe has ordered the Department of Correction to stop any additional preparations for the execution, pending further rulings and/or orders by the courts, citing a 1987 ruling by the 8th Circuit.

    http://arkansasnews.com/?s=Jack+Haro...r&x=26&y=6&=Go

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    Arkansas asks US Supreme Court to allow execution

    Arkansas is asking the U.S. Supreme court to let the execution of a convicted murderer and rapist proceed.

    Attorney General Dustin McDaniel petitioned Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito late last week to lift a stay of execution issued for Jack Harold Jones Jr. A federal judge this month issued an order stopping the scheduled March 16 execution.

    Gov. Mike Beebe halted preparations for the execution after a federal appeals court declined to lift the stay.

    Jones was sentenced to death for the 1995 rape and murder of Mary Phillips of Bald Knob. He has admitted killing Phillips and is challenging the state's method of execution. Jones' attorney plans to file a response.

    (Source: The Associated Press)

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    The Arkansas attorney general’s office has begun the process for setting a new execution date for death row inmate Jack Harold Jones Jr., a spokesman for Attorney General Dustin McDaniel said.

    “We’re preparing a letter to send to the governor to let him know he can set a new execution date,” McDaniel spokesman Aaron Sadler said Friday.

    On Thursday, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted a stay that had delayed Jones’ execution, originally scheduled for March 16.

    U.S. District Judge Leon Holmes issued the stay March 11 while considering a lawsuit challenging Arkansas’ Method of Execution Act. Holmes dismissed the lawsuit Monday, and the appeals court lifted the stay on Thursday.

    Jones’ attorney — Jeff Rosenzweig — said he will appeal the decision to lift the stay.

    Matt DeCample, spokesman for Gov. Mike Beebe, said the governor’s office will set a new execution date quickly once it receives the letter from the attorney general’s office.

    “Once we receive the letter, we look for a date that works for (the prison system) and all the parties involved, and we set the date,” DeCample said. He declined, however, to speculate on when a new date might be set for Jones.

    Jones was sentenced to die by lethal injection for the 1995 rape and murder of Mary Phillips of Bald Knob and the beating of Phillips’ 11-year-old daughter.

    Two other death row inmates who had joined Jones’ lawsuit, Don W. Davis and Stacey Eugene Johnson, received stays of execution from Holmes as well. Davis had been scheduled for execution Monday, and Johnson had an execution date in May.

    McDaniel’s office has appealed those stays and is waiting for the 8th Circuit to act on the appeal, Sadler said Friday. DeCample said the governor’s office was focused on resolving Davis’ case before setting an execution date for Jones.

    (Source: The Associated Press)

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    Jack Jones Jr. execution stayed once more

    The Arkansas Supreme Court has granted a stay on the May 24 execution for death row inmate Jack Harold Jones Jr.

    Jones was sentenced to die for the 1995 murder of a Bald Knob woman.

    Justices on Thursday granted Jones' petition to renew the stay of his execution.

    Jones had previously faced a March 16 execution date but won a stay as he challenged Arkansas' lethal-injection law.

    Jones received the death penalty for the death of Mary Phillips. Phillips was a bookkeeper who was killed at her office in Bald Knob. Jones has admitted killing Phillips and attacking her then-11-year-old daughter. Jones would be the 1st Arkansas inmate executed since 2005.

    (Source: Todaysthv.com)

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    Inmate Personal Information

    DOB: 08/10/1964
    Race: White
    Gender: Male

    Crime and Trial Information

    * County of conviction: White
    * Number of counts: One
    * Race of Victim: White
    * Gender of Victim: Female
    * Date of crime: 06/06/1995
    * Date of Sentencing: 04/17/1996

    Legal Status

    Current proceedings:
    Post Certiorari
    ‐‐> Order denying habeas corpus in E.D. Ark. on 04/13/2006; Mandate of 8th Cir. dismissing notice of appeal and denying certificate of appealability issued 08/14/2006

    Attorneys

    Jeffrey Marx Rosenzweig
    Dave Adams

    Court Opinions

    Jones v. State, 947 S.W.2d 339 (Ark.), cert. denied, 522 U.S. 1002 (1997); Jones v. State, 8 S.W.3d 482 (Ark. 2000) (affirming denial of post‐conviction relief).

    Legal Issues

    Direct appeal:
    (1) inconsistent sentencing‐phase verdict forms; on one form, jury stated that certain mitigating circumstances were believed to exist by some but not all jurors, and, on another form, jury indicated that no evidence was presented in support of such mitigating circumstances (specifically (i) whether Mr. Jones suffered from the mental disease or defect of attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder, (ii) whether, despite his efforts, Mr. Jones was repeatedly misdiagnosed and treated with inappropriate medications, and (iii) whether Mr. Jones' parents were often inconsistent in disciplining their children.)
    (2) possible due process claim under Hicks v. Oklahoma stemming from state supreme court's harmless error review of the inconsistent verdict form, in light of statute prescribing harmless error review when jury erroneously finds aggravating circumstances (and arguably limiting forbidding such review beyond those circumstances)

    In post‐convicton proceedings:
    (1) sufficiency of evidence to support aggravating circumstances

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    With new lethal injection law in place, Arkansas AG wants execution stays lifted for 6 inmates

    The Arkansas attorney general's office has filed a motion to lift stays of execution in place for six death-row inmates who have challenged the constitutionality of the state's lethal injection law.

    The motion, filed last week in the Arkansas Supreme Court, wants stays lifted for Jack Jones, Marcel Williams, Jason McGhee, Don Davis, Bruce Ward and Stacey Johnson. The inmates have all exhausted their appeals.

    Last year, the Arkansas Supreme Court struck down the state's execution law. The Legislature enacted a new death penalty law last month.

    The new law spells out in greater detail the procedures the state must follow in carrying out executions. It says the state must use a lethal dose of a barbiturate, but leaves it up to Department of Correction to determine which one.

    http://www.therepublic.com/view/stor...nalty-Arkansas
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    Jones, Williams, McGehee, Davis, Ward, and Johnson v Hobbs

    Opinion Date: April 11, 2013

    Court: Arkansas Supreme Court

    In Hobbs v. Jones, Petitioners challenged Arkansas's method-of-execution statute (the statute). Prior to submission, Petitioners filed renewed motions for stays of execution during the pendency of their appeal, which the Supreme Court granted. In Hobbs, the Court held that the statute violated the Arkansas Constitution's separation-of-powers doctrine. The mandate issued on July 11, 2012. The General Assembly subsequently enacted Act 139 or 2013, which amended the statute. On March 8, 2013, the Arkansas Department of Correction and its director (collectively, Respondents) filed a motion to lift the stays of execution. On March 18, 2013, Petitioners opposed lifting the stays and filed a motion to take the matter as a case, claiming that the Court must now determine whether Act 139 passed constitutional muster. The Supreme Court (1) declared moot Respondents' motion to lift the stays of execution, as the stays of execution dissolved upon the issuance of the Court's mandate on July 11, 2012; and (2) denied Petitioners' request to take the matter as a case, as the Court did not have original jurisdiction of the matter.
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    McDaniel seeks executions for 7 felons

    Arkansas' attorney general is asking the state's governor to set execution dates for seven death-row inmates.

    Attorney General Dustin McDaniel sent seven letters to Gov. Mike Beebe late Thursday requesting that execution dates be set for Don Davis, Stacey Johnson, Jack Jones, Jason McGehee, Bruce Ward, Kenneth Williams and Marcel Williams.

    McDaniel noted in the letters that six of the seven inmates — all but Davis — are challenging the state's new lethal injection law. Arkansas is changing the drugs it uses to put inmates to death.

    Despite the challenge, McDaniel said there aren't any court orders in place preventing the executions.

    Arkansas currently doesn't have any pending executions. The state last executed an inmate in 2005.

    http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2...ions-7-felons/

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    Arkansas Governor Asked to Set Execution Dates for 8 Inmates

    Arkansas attorney general has asked Gov. Asa Hutchinson to set execution dates for eight death row inmates in what would be the state's first executions in a decade.

    A spokesman for Attorney General Leslie Rutledge confirmed Tuesday that the request was made. A spokesman for Hutchinson said the governor did not have an immediate timeline for when he would set the dates.

    The Arkansas Department of Correction purchased enough of the three-drug combination used in the state's new execution protocol in late July to perform the executions. A state law passed this year lets the department buy the drugs secretly, as in other states.

    According to an invoice in which the name of the supplier is blacked out, the department paid $24,226 for the three drugs needed for lethal injections, including the sedative midazolam.

    Midazolam was implicated after executions last year in Arizona, Ohio and Oklahoma went on longer than expected, with inmates gasping and groaning as they died. The U.S. Supreme Court in June approved continued use of the drug, rejecting a challenge from three Oklahoma inmates now set to be put to death in September and October.

    Rutledge's spokesman Judd Deere said there were eight letters sent, one each for inmates Bruce Earl Ward, Don William Davis, Jack Jones, Jason McGehee, Kenneth Williams, Marcel Williams, Stacey Johnson and Terrick Nooner.

    The eight men have exhausted their court appeals for their criminal convictions, but the inmates filed a joint lawsuit in April when the law was passed allowing the state to keep the manufacturer of the drugs a secret.

    Attorney Jeff Rosenzweig, who represents the eight inmates, said Tuesday he plans to "file the appropriate pleadings in the appropriate courts to delay any execution date that the governor might set."

    Arkansas has not executed an inmate since 2005 because the state's execution law had been challenged in court.

    http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/a...mates-33459361
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