Montgomery, AL – The Alabama attorney general's office has for the third time this year asked the Alabama Supreme Court to set an execution date for one 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.
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