Tommy Arthur was convicted of murdering a man in 1981. He is still on Death Row at Holman Prison in Ardmore.
ARDMORE – Yesterday was scheduled as the day that Tommy Arthur would see a sunset. Arthur, who at the time of the crime, was living in Sheffield when he murdered Troy Wicker, (the husband of Arthur’s girlfriend), last night got his 7th stay of execution from the Supreme Court. At issue was the protocol for administering the deadly cocktail of drugs that is supposed to humanely quench life out of somebody. Also, Arthur’s legal team brought up the issue that Arthur has asked for a firing squad, rather than the drug protocol. The latter issue is widely regarded as a ploy by his legal team to throw a monkey-wrench into the execution process.
The way this works, is when a Execution Order gets issued from the state, it must be carried out on the specific day for which it is written. So, now the process gets to start all over again once the legal questions are litigated in Court.
The Quad-Cities Daily covered an earlier attempted execution of Arthur back in 2012. ARTHUR TO BE EXECUTED is a detailed story about the case. Ask The Lawyer – “Capital Murder Cases” and Tommy Arthur redux details the specifics about lethal injection and has some interesting facts about the application of the Death Penalty in Alabama. Arthur: Long Journey From Childhood To Death Chamber is a fascinating story about an artifact that a Sheffield resident found. It was something that Arthur left at his former Sheffield home as a child… The boy would become one of the most notorious criminals in Alabama history.
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