AP reports, "State to Supreme Court: Deny Thomas Arthur Stay of Execution," via the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette.
The Alabama attorney general's office on Thursday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to deny a stay of execution for convicted murderer Thomas Arthur, who faces lethal injection next week.
Arthur has waited too late to challenge Alabama's method of execution and the high court should not block his execution scheduled for next Thursday, Assistant Attorney General Clay Crenshaw said in a court filing.
Crenshaw responded to a petition for a stay filed earlier this week by New York attorney Suhana S. Han, who represents Arthur. She asked the high court to block the execution while the court considers constitutional issues in a Kentucky lethal injection case.
Those issues include "the proper standard for determining whether a method of execution violates the Eighth Amendment" protection against cruel and unusual punishment.
A ruling in the Kentucky case isn't expected until next year. In the meantime, many lethal injection cases, including Arthur's, remain in limbo.
My earlier post on this case is here.
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