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    Arkansas Governor Sets Execution Dates After 10-Year Gap

    Arkansas will resume lethal injections after a 10-year gap with a double execution next month, Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Wednesday as he announced execution dates for eight death-row inmates.

    Arkansas hasn't executed an inmate since 2005, largely because of court challenges to the state's lethal injection law and a nationwide shortage of drugs that Arkansas has used during executions.

    But last week, Attorney General Leslie Rutledge sent letters to the governor requesting that execution dates be set. Rutledge said the inmates' appeals had been exhausted, and the state Department of Correction said it had enough doses of its lethal-injection drugs to perform the executions.

    Hutchinson set four dates through January, meaning two men are scheduled to be executed on each date. But he acknowledged that challenges are likely.

    "Quite frankly I would expect continued litigation in it, but it's my understanding that all of the appeals have been exhausted and that there is a finality in the judgment and that is the reason the Attorney General has asked for those dates to be set," Hutchinson said.

    One pending lawsuit challenges a new state law that allows the Correction Department not to disclose how it obtains its execution drugs. Attorney Jeff Rosenzweig, who is representing the eight inmates in the lawsuit, said he and other lawyers are working on filing motions to delay the executions.

    "We think the lethal injection lawsuit presents serious issues that need to be resolved first before any executions can take place," he said Wednesday.

    Federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, have rejected similar arguments used by inmates in Missouri, Texas and other states that also allow prisons to keep their drug suppliers' names secret.

    The first two executions are scheduled Oct. 21 for death-row inmates Bruce Earl Ward and Don William Davis.

    Ward, a former perfume salesman, was convicted in the 1989 killing of 18-year-old Rebecca Doss, whose body was found in the men's bathroom of the convenience store where she worked. Davis, who had an execution date set in 2006 that was later stayed, was sentenced to death for the 1990 killing of Jane Daniels in northwest Arkansas.

    The other execution dates are set for Nov. 3, Dec. 14 and Jan. 14.

    Arkansas has executed 27 people since the U.S. Supreme Court reauthorized the death penalty in 1976, though none since Eric Nance was put to death in 2005 for the killing of 18-year-old Julie Heath of Malvern.

    Arkansas's execution protocol calls for a three-drug process. The Department of Correction said that as of July 1, it had enough of the drugs, including midazolam, to perform the executions.

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

    http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/a...r-gap-33637772
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    Nooner execution set for Nov. 3

    Among the eight death-row inmates Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson set execution dates for last week was a man who killed a Russellville native in Little Rock 22 years ago.

    Terrick Nooner, 43, was sentenced to death after his conviction in the murder of Scot Stobaugh, 22, who lived in Little Rock and was a student at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock. Nooner shot and killed Stobaugh in a laundromat in March 1993.

    Nooner’s execution was set by the governor for Nov. 3. It has been 10 years since anyone has been executed in the state of Arkansas.

    In June 2014, Nooner was denied a new sentencing hearing for his conviction, as Arkansas’ highest court rejected his argument that jurors didn’t properly consider factors such as his troubled childhood.

    In a 4-3 ruling, the state Supreme Court rejected Nooner’s bid to vacate his death sentence and send the case back to a lower court for resentencing. A second person, Robert Rockett, also was convicted as a co-conspirator and sentenced to life in prison without parole.

    “We have considered all of Nooner’s arguments, and conclude that none of them demonstrates extraordinary circumstances to justify recalling the mandate in his direct appeal,” Justice Donald Corbin wrote in the court’s ruling.

    In January 2010, a federal judge rejected Nooner’s claim that surveillance tape proved his innocence in the 1993 slaying.

    U.S. District Judge Leon Holmes found that Nooner’s claims didn’t prove his innocence in the Stobaugh’s shooting death.

    “Much of what Nooner claims to be newly discovered evidence is not new nor does it show that Nooner is actually innocent,” Holmes wrote in a 20-page ruling.

    Nooner’s attorneys argued at a previous hearing that another man, Rockett, was the gunman and that surveillance tape proved Nooner’s innocence. Though much of the shooting occurs off-camera, the footage appears to show the gunman using his right hand to hold the .22-caliber pistol that killed the UALR student. In his ruling, Holmes noted Rockett is left-handed. Stobaugh was shot seven times in the back and side at a Fun Wash in Little Rock. The state Supreme Court upheld Nooner’s conviction in 1995. The following year, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to consider the case. Federal public defenders appealed Nooner’s sentence in 2007, claiming an analysis of the surveillance footage and Rockett’s confession showed Nooner didn’t shoot Stobaugh.

    The judge also wrote that Nooner’s new claims were a departure from what he said at trial.

    “At trial, Nooner’s defense relied on evidence that he was at home in bed at the time of the murder,” Holmes wrote. “The evidence upon which he relies now purports to show that he was in the vehicle at the Fun Wash laundromat, not at home in bed, when the murder occurred.”

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    Arkansas judge halts scheduled executions of eight inmates

    An Arkansas judge issued an order on Friday that temporarily blocked the scheduled executions of eight convicted murderers after lawyers for the death row inmates challenged secrecy provisions in the state's lethal injection procedures.

    Arkansas, one of the 31 U.S. states with the death penalty, has not carried out an execution since 2005 but had planned to resume capital punishment on Oct. 21 with two executions.

    Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen took the action after lawyers for the inmates argued on Wednesday that provisions keeping secret the name of the vendors who provide the drugs used in lethal injections violated state law.

    The judge issued a temporary restraining order for the executions to further examine the arguments, saying that "this action is Plaintiffs' only legal remedy by which they can challenge the Method of Execution Statute and execution protocol that will effectuate their deaths."

    The Arkansas General Assembly this year enacted a statute allowing the identity of vendors of the pharmaceuticals to be withheld from the public. The condemned inmates contend the state must identify the suppliers of the drugs in accord with a settlement in an earlier case.

    Arkansas is the only state in the U.S. South to have not carried out an execution in recent years. Legal and political battles over death chamber procedures and stays of executions for other inmates have been the main reasons why the state has not carried out an execution since 2005.

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/...0S32FS20151009
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    So, what has happened with Nooner, he was executable 18 months ago and not any more?

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    Doesn't matter Albert. None of the scheduled executions are going to happen.
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    Why should we expect none of them to occur this time?
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Because they don't have the drugs even though they could acquire them within 2 months time.

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    Potassium chloride is a very common drug so there shouldn't be any issues in finding a source.

    Their Midazolam expires at the end of April why would the ones in the middle of the month be stayed?
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Some other use said that Nooner is now mentally incompetent. What happened to him in one year? There is no back?

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    That was me indeed..

    "However, one of those inmates, Terrick Nooner, was deemed incompetent to be executed in October 2015, Rutledge spokesman Judd Deere said Friday. Nooner is still listed on the state's death roster. Deere said Rutledge's office has no plans to request an execution date for Nooner."

    http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2...dates-for-8-e/

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