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Tommy Arthur, 74, of the Shoals area with ties to Haleyville, was scheduled for execution at 6 p.m. Thursday, November 3rd. Arthur has once again successfully escaped execution for the 7th time while sitting on death row at Holman Prison. The stay this time was from the U.S. Supreme Court which acted on an appeal from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals which refused to block the execution. Arthur had been convicted at three different trials and sentenced to death each time for the murder-for-hire shooting death of Troy Wicker of Muscle Shoals in 1982.

Arthur’s New York attorney filed an appeal based on Alabama’s lethal injection, arguing the method of execution was cruel and unusual punishment. The appeal was denied on Wednesday by both the Alabama Supreme Court and the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. U.S. Supreme Court Justice stated he granted the stay as a courtesy.

Arthur was on work release in 1982 while serving a sentence for the 1977 shooting death of his sister-in-law at a business in Bear Creek when he killed Wicker. Both his sister-in-law and Wicker were shot execution style with one shot through the right eye. Arthur remains defiant and maintains his innocence.