Late-night decision stays death of Don Davis,and prevents start of schedule that planned killings of several prisoners this monthThe US supreme court has ended a dramatic day of legal tussles over Arkansas’ unprecedented plan to execute eight prisoners in 11 days, declining to allow the state to recede ahead with Monday night’s scheduled killings in what amounted to a major victory for the condemned inmates’ lawyers and anti-death penalty campaigners.
The nation’s highest court took several hours to reach its decision, and finally announcing at 11.50pm that it had declined to lift a stay on the execution of Don Davis,54, imposed earlier in the day by the supreme court of Arkansas.
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Source: theguardian.com