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Beebe sets execution for death-row inmate Saturday, Jun 21, 2008 Arkansas News Bureau LITTLE ROCK - Gov. Mike Beebe on Friday set a Sept. 9 execution date for death-row inmate Frank Williams Jr., sentenced to death in the 1992 murder a Southwest Arkansas farmer. The execution date is the first Beebe has set since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in April against a legal challenge to the use of lethal injection to put an inmate to death. The governor set three execution dates last year but stays were issued in federal court pending a high court ruling in a Kentucky case. In Friday's proclamation, Beebe said all of Williams' state and federal appeals had been exhausted. The condemned killer is to die by injection. Williams was sentenced to death for shooting Clyde Spence of Bradley during a robbery. Williams was on a work-release program at the time and had been fired job at Spence's farm just before the shooting. Twenty-seven death-row inmates have been executed in Arkansas since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the death penalty constitutional in 1976. The last inmate to be executed in Arkansas was Eric Nance, who was put to death on Nov. 29, 2005. |
