The possibility of a ruling that would affect Mr. Davis’s case, the Arkansas justices concluded, was enough to warrant stopping his execution. The state ruling also applied to Bruce Ward, an Arkansas prisoner whose execution, originally scheduled for Monday, was already the subject of an unrelated stay. Advertisement Continue reading the main story“Somebody got hurt,” Mr. Davis told his roommates after the October 1990 murder, according to a court ruling. Video“What I did was an act of cowardice,” Mr. Davis said in an interview with an Arkansas television station in 2015. The State Supreme Court also referred Judge Griffen to the Arkansas Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission.

Source: New York Times April 17, 2017 21:34 UTC