The Alabama Department of Corrections set execution dates for Arthur in 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2012, 2014 and 2016, but all were postponed as a pro bono legal team challenged his conviction.

Convicted murderer Thomas Arthur, 75, was strapped to a gurney at the Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Ala., and injected with a cocktail of lethal drugs about 11:45 p.m. local time.

WASHINGTON — Thomas Arthur's luck finally ran out late Thursday night on his eighth date with Alabama's lethal injection gurney. The Supreme Court denied Arthur's last-minute petition seeking ...

THE TRIALS OF THOMAS ARTHUR. Thomas Arthur / AP. Apart from the fact that he may have spent decades on death row for a crime he didn't commit ...