Supreme Court OKs Arthur Execution

BREAKING NEWS: WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has cleared the way for
Alabama, Mississippi and Texas to set new execution dates for three
inmates who were granted last-minute reprieves by the justices last
year.
The court on Monday turned down appeals from Thomas Arthur of Alabama, Earl Wesley Berry of Mississippi and Carlton Turner of
Texas. The court blocked their executions last fall while it
considered a challenge to Kentucky's lethal injection procedures.
The justices said those procedures are not unconstitutionally
cruel, a decision that almost certainly will lead to a resumption
of executions after a 7-month hiatus.
The high court's last-minute orders temporarily sparing the
three inmates automatically expired when the justices denied their
appeals Monday.
Arthur was sentenced to death for the 1982 killing of Troy Wicker of Muscle Shoals.

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