Drug fresh, `91 killer to have execution set
(World News USA)

Arkansas` oldest death-row prisoner will have an execution date set, the governor`s office announced Thursday, just as a prison spokesman revealed the state had acquired a drug to carry out further lethal injections. Jack Gordon Greene, 62, was convicted by a Johnson County jury in October 1992 of capital murder for killing a minister. Greene`s first execution date was set for that December. Appeals delayed that sentence and reached the Arkansas Supreme Court and later the U.S. Supreme Court, which declined to hear his case earlier this year. Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge informed Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Thursday that Greene had exhausted his appeals, and she asked that an...