LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Arkansas’ attorney general won’t fight the state Supreme Court’s decision to halt this week’s planned execution of a convicted murderer.A spokesman for Attorney General Leslie Rutledge said Tuesday she won’t ask the state Supreme Court to reconsider the emergency stay granted to Jack Greene, and won’t take the issue to the U.S. Supreme Court. The state had planned to execute Greene on Thursday night before justices issued the stay.
Greene was sentenced to die for the 1991 death of Sidney Burnett, who was beaten with a can of hominy, stabbed and shot.
Greene’s attorneys had asked for the stay so justices could review a lower court’s decision to dismiss his challenge of a state law that gives Arkansas’ top prison official the authority to determine whether he is competent.
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