April 17
ARKANSAS----stay of 2 impending executions
Split Arkansas court blocks 2 executions
A divided Arkansas Supreme Court granted stays of executions for 2
Arkansas inmates while the U.S. Supreme Court takes up a separate case next
week concerning access to independent mental health experts by defendants.
The Arkansas court ruled 4-3 Monday to block the executions for Bruce Ward and
Don Davis, who were originally scheduled to be put to death Monday night,
though stays had been issued in separate court cases challenging their
executions and six others planned this month.
Writing in a dissent, Associate Justice Shawn Womack lamented the court’s
ruling. He wrote that Ward and Davis have had “decades of appeals” and that the
victims’ families deserved closure.
A spokesman for Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge had no immediate
comment on the court’s ruling.
(source: Washington Post)
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