TV Schedule

Despite Doubts, Alabama Man Faces Execution

  2. unclepete
  3. related topics
Thomas Arthur has been on death row since 1982. His execution is set for July 31 -- although strong doubts remain about his guilt. The governor of Alabama is refusing to allow DNA tests that may prove his innocence.

Twice already, Sherrie Stone has said farewell to her father for what she thought was the last time. Twice she told him "my goodbyes," as she puts it, in a prison in Atmore, Alabama. Twice she watched him shuffle off to his cell on death row, where he has been waiting to die for 26 years.

Twice his execution has been postponed, only hours beforehand.

Next week, Stone, 47, will go to Atmore a third and probably last time. An eight-hour drive from Florida, where she lives, to Alabama, where her father, Thomas Arthur, has been incarcerated for murder since 1982. On July 31, when he is finally to die by lethal injection, Stone will go through the farewell motions yet again. It doesn't get any easier.

Read more...
unclepete

3 responses // Despite Doubts, Alabama Man Faces Execution

  • I don't understand whyBob Riley will not just give him a dna test if that will show if he is guilty or not that is a mans life but Bob Riley did get suport from george Bush so if this is not a way to show that you are a strong govener. If he is excecuted she should still try and have an DNA test done. Don't give up
    JereeGrey
  • What I don't understand is why execute the man if there are doubts about his guilt despite the conviction?

    If the execution falls through and it is later found out that he was innocent of the crime he was convicted for then at least on a legal level this mans family could have the local government by the balls.
    Varex_Sythe
  • Shame on the American law system and shame on everyone who supports this.
    supaswag

Add your response

Login/Registration is required to add a response.