MONTGOMERY, Ala., April 22 (UPI) -- Alabama's attorney general announced he has filed a motion to set a new execution date for an inmate who had challenged the legality of lethal injections.
The U.S. Supreme Court last week lifted the stay of execution for Tommy Arthur, one of two death row inmates who had challenged Alabama's method of carrying out the death penalty.
Attorney General Troy King said in a written statement Monday that he had asked the state supreme court to set a new execution date for Arthur. He had earlier filed similar motions for three other inmates.
"We really expected it," Arthur's daughter, Sherrie Stone, told the Times Daily newspaper in Florence, Ala. "We knew it was going to happen and we expected it to be soon."
Arthur was sentenced to death for a 1982 shooting in Muscle Shoals and had his execution stayed three times, the newspaper said.
