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    Tommy Arthur, Shoals death row inmate, may get execution date

    MONTGOMERY, Alabama — The Alabama Attorney General's Office has filed a motion seeking an execution date for death row inmate Tommy Arthur.

    The 68-year-old Arthur has been sentenced to die by 3 separate juries for the Feb. 1, 1982, shooting death of Troy Wicker at his home in Muscle Shoals. Wicker's wife, Judy Wicker, testified she hired Arthur to kill her husband.

    Last week, the Alabama Supreme Court denied Arthur's petition for a new trial without comment. Assistant Attorney General Clay Crenshaw said there is no time frame for the motion to be addressed.

    Arthur has been on death row since 1983. This will be his fourth execution date. He was previously scheduled to be executed in 2001, 2007 and 2008.

    Judy Wicker served 10 years for her role in her husband's death.

    http://blog.al.com/wire/2011/04/tomm...death_row.html

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    On June 8, 2011, Arthur filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/ala...cv00438/45686/

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    Ala. AG seeks execution date for Tommy Arthur

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama Attorney General's Office has asked the Alabama Supreme Court to set an execution date for death row inmate Tommy Arthur.

    The attorney general's office asked the court Friday to reconsider a ruling last month declining to schedule an execution date. In the motion, Assistant Attorney General Clay Crenshaw said it was time to schedule the 69-year-old Arthur's execution for the Feb. 1, 1982 shooting death of Troy Wicker at his home in Muscle Shoals. Arthur was an inmate at a Decatur work release facility at the time of Wicker's death.

    The state Supreme Court stopped his scheduled 2008 execution when another inmate claimed he killed Wicker. Arthur's attorneys argued setting an execution date would be premature because the U.S. Supreme Court never ruled on the latest appeal.

    http://annistonstar.com/bookmark/147...r-Tommy-Arthur

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    Alabama AG wants court to set Arthur execution date

    The Alabama attorney general's office has filed its second request this summer asking the Alabama Supreme Court to set an execution date for death row inmate Tommy Douglas Arthur.

    The 69-year-old Arthur was convicted in the 1982 murder-for-hire killing of Muscle Shoals businessman Troy Wicker. He's one of the longest serving death row inmates in Alabama history and has been there since 1983.

    At the time of the slaying, Arthur was assigned to the Decatur Work Release Facility. He was serving time in connection with a 1977 Marion County homicide.

    Arthur was within hours of execution three times when decisions on his appeals stopped his trip to the death chamber.

    Alabama Assistant Attorney General Clay Crenshaw says Arthur has had benefit of every possible attempt to keep him alive.

    http://www2.oanow.com/news/2011/aug/...te-ar-2295964/

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    In today's United States Supreme Court orders, Arthur's petition for a writ of certiorari was DENIED.

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    Ala. AG's office seeks execution date for Arthur

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The Alabama attorney general's office has for the third time this year asked the Alabama Supreme Court to set an execution date for 1 of the state's longest-serving death row inmates.

    Assistant Attorney General Clay Crenshaw said the motion was filed Tuesday seeking an execution date for 69-year-old Thomas Douglas Arthur.

    Arthur was sentenced to die for the 1982 murder-for-hire killing of Muscle Shoals businessman Troy Wicker. He has been on death row for 28 years.

    At the time Wicker was killed, Arthur was on work release for a 1977 homicide.

    The Supreme Court declined to grant the requests earlier this year to set execution dates saying the federal courts had not completed a review of his latest appeal. Crenshaw said that review is now complete.

    http://www.wsfa.com/story/15870836/a...ate-for-arthur

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    The Alabama Supreme Court has set execution dates for death row inmates Tommy Arthur and Carey Dale Grayson.

    The court Wednesday ordered that Arthur die on March 29 and set Grayson's execution for April 12. Both men are to die by lethal injection at Holman Prison in Atmore.

    The 69-year-old Arthur was sentenced to die for the 1982 murder-for-hire killing of Muscle Shoals businessman Troy Wicker. He is one of the longest serving inmates on Alabama's death row. This is the fifth time an execution date has been set for Arthur.

    Grayson is on death row for the Feb. 21, 1994 kidnapping and murder of Vicki Lynn Deblieux. Grayson was one of four men charged with torturing and killing Deblieux and throwing her body off a cliff near Birmingham.

    http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/...APN/1202230638

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    This is wrong.
    I understand there are different laws and interpretations from state to state. But we have here a man about to be executed whilst the instigator of the crime is now free.
    In other states she would be facing the death penalty. There should be a broad consensus of what crime demands the death penalty otherwise the law will be seen as partial to groups sexes classes and races.

    The man did wrong but she who had the guilty mind and did the act of hiring a total loser should not be free and enjoying a life he cannot have.

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    The idea of putting women to death has never sat well with jurors, and many times women play the "I was abused by the killer, and feared for my life" defense, which works well because usually their male accomplice is a nut job......But...it seems we are seeing more of a trend where woman are becoming more fair game when getting harsher sentences, and it might be because the women these days are getting crazier than the men........Imagine that...ha ha....

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    I was wondering about this point too Diggler, but I think Arthur had the choice (like nearly every triggerman) to say "no". If he would have said "no" he wouldn´t face execution. On the other hand I think the sentence of the person who gave the "order" to kill shouldn´t escape with a much "lighter" sentence like in this case. Sometimes it seems to be very difficult to get "fair" sentences. At least if it comes down to law of parties-laws. I remmeber f.e. the Kenneth Forster case (Texas). There had been a lot of discussions about his role and the communtation of the sentence.

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