NY Group Trying To Stop Tommy Arthur Execution

The Innocence Project has launched an e-mail campaign hoping to convince Gov. Bob Riley to issue a stay and order DNA testing that could exonerate Arthur.

By: Jamie Burch | WKRG
Published: July 08, 2008

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - A New York group has launched an e-mail
campaign trying to halt the execution of Alabama death row inmate
Tommy Arthur.

Arthur is set to die July 31 for a 1982 contract killing. But
The Innocence Project hopes to persuade Gov. Bob Riley to issue a
stay and order DNA testing that could exonerate Arthur.

An aide said Riley did not plan to intervene.

The 66-year-old Arthur claims he is innocent and was wrongly
convicted of murdering Troy Wicker, 35, of Muscle Shoals. He also
is challenging the state's latest lethal injection procedures in an
appeal in federal court.

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