Fifth execution date set for Tommy Arthur

I'll believe it when I see it. However, I think he's played all the cards under his sleeve this time.

Is Wicker's wife still in prison?

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No, she has been out for years.

I'm tired of seeing his face plastered on my computer screen!

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LOL........Gus, the man's about to die.

Wicker, when faced with first degree murder, took a plea bargain of ten years to testify for the State in the case against Tommy Arthur. 

I won't believe it until the annoucement has been made that he's taken his last breath. It's a shame that he's played the system this long.

He went to school with my husband's brother. I understand he was trouble all his life. Here's an updated photograph of him.

http://www.theconnectionnortha...s.php?viewStory=1205

"The Portrait of Dorian Gray"!  I shudder to think what Tommy's picture would look like if his "real" self could be put on canvas.  But only God can see that picture.  Guess we all need to stop and think..........

Mary Wicker is now Judy Turner?

Yeah, he's awful, no argument there. But funny how the murderous hag/wife got to walk. Didn't see any railing against her on that blog.  What a world.

The thing about the car, I think it was a new Golden Hawk Studebaker,

Was that Arthur had a bucket he used for a few days. That's how

he could total out the car. As soon as she sat down in the car, she rolled out

onto the grass, crying her eyes out. Being a hot early spring day didn't help.

 



Weird, I would have though the top one was the most recent picture. He appears to be aging in reverse. Seriously he looks like he's 80 in the first photo to me. lol Good to see he's been getting free dental though in the pen.

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Is that a gold tooth I see?

I'll have to ask my husband if Tommy ever has a gold tooth, but Semi, if you look at the old picture really good it seems there is the glint from a gold tooth there. Invictus, I'd never heard the whole story about the car. Do you know what the teacher had done to Arthur? It seems like it wouldn't take much to set him off.

Seven, remember the uproar a while ago when prisoners were going to get plastic surgery on the taxpayers "dime"? I'm talking strictly cosmetic. I'm pretty sure that idea was shouted down, but before it was proposed that taxpayers pick up the bill, residents did go into prisons do it, not sure if they still do that or not. What a world.

http://news.google.com/newspap...&pg=4158,4353384

 It was being done for free at one time, but they had a push to get it done and paid for by taxpayers. Two different things. That's why I said BEFORE it was proposed that we pay for it, it was being done for free, and I don't know if they even do it at all now. 

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The teacher didn't do anything to anyone, I forgot what type of Math she taught

but she was just picked out as one they didn't like for whatever reason.

He thought of himself as a con artist, and one Sunday he addressed the

First Methodist Church congregation with a story of trying to turn his life

around. He did talk them out of 250 dollars.

One night later that week he was laughing about it.

I think the teacher's name was Mrs. Gaines.

Ho hum, maybe that's why he looks so happy. He can't move his face anymore than Joan Rivers.

My husband didn't remember Tommy having a gold tooth, but he suggested it could be silver. My hubby sells a lot on ebay and if the article is silver colored it often looks like gold in the photo. I would doubt the state would give anyone a gold crown and I would doubt his family would pay for it. If it's true, it would make a great story for the Times to work on.

Ok, so I really have a doubt or two that he did it. I think my doubts are just barely inside of reasonable doubt but still there is a doubt and if it were on me then I could not put him to death for that murder BUT as I understand it he had confessed to and previously been convicted of a homicide in Marion County before all of this and was in work release for the other murder when all of this happened so with that said, it does not really bother me for him to be put to death as I think he should have died for the 1977 murder conviction from Marion County anyway.

I hate it that Ms. Wicker got off so lightly, she should be executed too.

UPDATE: It's been cancelled yet again.  

http://www.timesdaily.com/stor...on-for-Arthur,188761

MONTGOMERY — A federal appeals court has granted a stay of execution for a Sheffield man who was set to die next week in a 1982 murder-for-hire case.

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today postponed the execution of Thomas Douglas Arthur until further action of the court.

Earlier in the week the court had reversed a judge's decision to dismiss Arthur's appeal, which contended that Alabama's decision to use a new sedative called pentobarbital as part of a three-drug execution combination could be cruel and unusual punishment.

Arthur's attorneys on Thursday had sought a stay while the state asks the entire 11th Circuit to reconsider the court's decision.

Arthur was set to be executed on March 29 for the 1982 murder-for-hire killing of Muscle Shoals resident Troy Wicker.

I'm not surprised by this news at all.

I was reading things about his appeals and found this old article. She should be right there on death row with him, or better yet, already executed. She was "punished"? Really? 10 years for having a man killed is punishment?? 

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Troy Wicker's widow, Judy Wicker, who was convicted of murder for hiring Arthur to kill her husband, said the repeated delays for Arthur's execution are frustrating.

"I'm just so sick of it," she said. "My children are sick of it. I was punished for what I did. Now it's time for him to be punished for what he did. Me and the kids can't put this behind us until he is finally executed."

Judy Wicker served 10 years of a life sentence for her role in Troy Wicker's death.

http://www.timesdaily.com/stor...hoals-presence,99160

Well, it's happened again. Arthur won't die tomorrow after all.

Arthur will die of old age. It seems quite clear at this point. 

I would say that the Wicker Witch deserves to die a lot more than he does.