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    Quote Originally Posted by Aaron View Post
    Melbourne's father telling the board his son was shown no mercy and neither should McGehee.
    Sounds good to me.

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    Arkansas parole board suggests mercy for 1 of 8 inmates set to die in double-executions

    Arkansas' parole board is suggesting that Gov. Asa Hutchinson extend mercy to one of eight inmates scheduled to die in a series of double executions this month.

    The Republican governor is not bound by the board's recommendation Wednesday that he spare Jason McGehee's life. The 40-year-old inmate was convicted of killing a teenager who had told police about a theft ring operating in far northern Arkansas.

    The state has adopted an unprecedented execution schedule with its plan to put eight men to death in a 10-day period. Only Texas has executed that many inmates in a month, doing it twice in 1997.

    In a separate decision, the board says a petition by Kenneth Williams was without merit. Williams was condemned after escaping and killing a man who lived near the prison.

    https://www.google.com/amp/www.latim...story,amp.html
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    As much as I disagree with the recommendation of clemency, and as much as I hope the governor rejects this lousy decision, I believe it could be a blessing in disguise. The fact that one of the inmates successfully argued in favor of clemency should be a huge blow to the appeal that the time frame takes away a fair chance for clemency. This should bolster the state's argument.
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    Judge blocks execution of 1 of 8 Arkansas inmates

    LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A judge on Thursday stopped one of eight Arkansas executions set for this month, but at least six remain on course despite the judge’s finding that the state broke some of its rules while handling clemency requests.

    U.S. District Judge D. Price Marshall Jr. put on hold the execution of Jason McGehee, one of eight inmates who was set to die in an unprecedented series of double executions this month.

    Marshall said the inmate was entitled to a 30-day comment period after the Arkansas Parole Board told Gov. Asa Hutchinson that his clemency request had merit. The 30-day period started Wednesday and will not expire until after Arkansas’ supply of a key execution drug expires April 30.

    The judge rejected stay requests from five other inmates, despite what he said was “at times shoddy” work at the Parole Board office as the state crunched its timetable for clemency hearings after Hutchinson set four double executions to occur from April 17-27.

    Marshall called the state’s work “imperfect” and at times arbitrary, but said the inmates due process rights were not harmed by a shortened timetable.

    “These hearings were not a sham. They were not pro forma,” Marshall said.

    Lawyers for the unsuccessful inmates said they would appeal.

    The judge said he would rule later on one inmate’s request, because the Parole Board won’t hear his clemency request until Friday. The eighth inmate scheduled to die this month did not request clemency and was not part of the other inmates’ lawsuit that Marshall was considering.

    Parole Board policies require that inmates file their clemency requests 40 days ahead of their scheduled execution dates and that the board have hearings and make recommendations 30 days in advance so the governor and others interested in the cases can weigh in on the recommendations.

    Much of this week’s two-day hearing centered on how much leeway panel Chairman John Felts had in altering the timetable with the board’s approval. The state said the full 30-day timetable wasn’t required under Parole Board rules that allow Felts to make decisions, with the board’s permission, “in the interest of justice.”

    Marshall said that while the board let some inmates make requests late, it couldn’t shorten the timetable for public comment on clemency requests that had merit, like McGehee’s.

    The due process rights of the others weren’t violated, he said, because they received sufficient notice and had an opportunity to be heard by an impartial board.

    The state noted that seven of the eight executions were still on.

    “The victims’ families have waited far too long to see justice for their loved ones, and today’s decision from Judge Marshall allows all but one of the scheduled executions to move forward,” said Judd Deere, a spokesman for the attorney general’s office.

    Even with McGehee’s execution off, seven executions in a month will still be a record for Arkansas. Only Texas has executed eight in a month since the U.S. Supreme Court reauthorized the death penalty in 1976, doing it twice in 1997.

    Prosecutors say McGehee, who had just turned 20, directed the 1996 fatal assault of Johnny Melbourne Jr., a 15-year-old who had told police about a northern Arkansas theft ring. In voting 6-1 in favor of McGehee’s clemency request, the Parole Board considered letters and testimony from the judge from McGehee’s trial, a former Correction Department chief, members of McGehee’s family and the victim’s father.

    https://www.google.com/amp/www.cbsne...ansas-inmates/
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    Federal appeals court grants AG's motion to lift stays of execution

    LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals granted late Monday afternoon the Arkansas Attorney General's motion to vacate the stays of execution imposed last week by a district judge.

    The 8th Circuit Court cited the prisoners' long delay in pursuing their federal claims, saying "the prisoners voluntarily elected to forego their federal claim in April 2015, and chose instead to challenge the method of execution exclusively in state court under the Arkansas Constitution."

    The court says that created a presumption against granting a stay of the executions.

    The court said Judge Baker's conclusion about the midazolam (the sedative used in lethal injections) was not adequately supported by the court's factual findings.

    The court disagreed that the execution method was sure or very likely to cause needless suffering.

    Monday's 8th Circuit ruling does not affect the Arkansas Supreme Court's stay issued for death row inmates Don Davis and Bruce Ward, who were scheduled to die Monday, April 17. This order paves the way for only the remaining 5 executions to proceed.

    http://katv.com/news/local/8th-circu...s-of-execution

    The Eighth Circuit's decision can be read here.

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    State Will Not Appeal Jason McGehee's Stay of Execution

    LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KARK) - The state has decided not to appeal a stay of execution for Arkansas Death Row inmate Jason McGehee.

    The office of Attorney General Leslie Rutledge announced the decision on Tuesday afternoon.

    McGehee was granted a stay by a federal judge in Little Rock on April 6. He had been scheduled to die on Thursday, April 27.

    He received a death sentence in 1998 after being convicted of Capital Murder in a 1997 incident in Boone County.

    http://www.ozarksfirst.com/news/stat...tion/699508111

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    Arkansas governor to grant clemency to inmate

    Arkansas’ governor says he intends to spare the life of a death row inmate the state had planned to execute in April.

    Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Friday said he planned to grant clemency to Jason McGehee, commuting his sentence from death to life without parole.

    McGehee had been sentenced to death in the 1996 beating death of 15-year-old Johnny Melbourne Jr.

    McGehee was among eight death row inmates Arkansas intended to execute in April, but had been spared after a federal judge put his execution on hold. The Arkansas Parole Board had recommended that Hutchinson grant McGehee clemency.

    The judge said McGehee was entitled to a 30-day comment period before Hutchinson made his decision.

    Arkansas put four inmates to death in April. Hutchinson earlier Friday set another execution for November.

    http://www.tribtown.com/2017/08/25/u...-the-latest-2/

    I expected better from Hutchinson, but oh well.
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    McGehee's sentence commutation official

    The Boone County Circuit Clerk’s Office was recently notified that Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s commutation of convicted killer Jason McGehee’s sentence is now official.

    Hutchinson announced in late August his intent to commute McGehee’s sentence from death by lethal injection to life without parole, but there was a 30-day waiting period for comment or objection.

    That comment period ended and the governor issued a proclamation declaring the commutation Sept. 29.

    McGehee was one of three defendants convicted of capital murder and kidnapping in the torture/beating of 15-year-old John Melbourne Jr. in Harrison and his ultimate strangulation death near Omaha in August 1996. Melbourne was believed to have been a snitch.

    Christopher Epps, now 41, was sentenced to life in prison without parole on capital murder and 40 years for kidnapping, while Benjamin MacFarland, now 38, was sentenced to life without parole on capital murder and life on kidnapping.

    MacFarland was 17 at the time and the youngest of the three defendants. Due to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, he was resentenced to 40 years in prison and he must serve 70 percent of that sentence before being eligible for parole.

    Both MacFarland and McGehee were tried in Baxter County on a change of venue due to pretrial publicity before and during Epps’ trial in Boone County.

    McGehee was one of eight convicts scheduled to be executed in April. He was the only convict the Parole Board recommended be granted clemency.

    After the Parole Board’s recommendation, a 30-day waiting period for public comments began. That meant his execution couldn’t take place before the expiration date of the state’s supply of one key execution drug.

    In making his announcement in August, Hutchinson said in a statement that he considered the entire trial transcript, meeting’s with Melbourne’s family and the Parole Board’s recommendation.

    “In addition,” Hutchinson said in the statement, “the disparity in sentence given to Mr. McGehee compared to the sentences of his co-defendants was a factor in my decision, as well.”

    The proclamation states that no judicial or law enforcement officials in the 14th Judicial Circuit raised any objections to McGehee’s request for executive clemency during the 30-day comment period.

    http://harrisondaily.com/news/mcgehe...8988a2819.html

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    The Eighth Circuit has denied a petition sought by Arkansas inmates Jason McGehee, Stacy Johnson, Bruce Ward, Terrick Nooner and Don Davis, subpoenaing the Nebraska Department of Corrections for information on their death penalty protocol in order to prove that Arkansas’s death penalty violates the Eighth Amendment

    https://law.justia.com/cases/federal...020-08-06.html
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    The Eighth Circuit has remanded the Eighth Amendment lawsuit against the Nebraska Department of Corrections brought by Arkansas inmates Jason McGehee, Stacey Johnson, Bruce Ward, Terrick Nooner and Don Davis to the district court to be dismissed.

    https://law.justia.com/cases/federal...021-02-10.html
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