Arkansas Execution Stayed by U.S. Court
<i> United Press International</i>
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. —
A three-judge panel of the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday stayed the execution of Death Row inmate Barry Lee Fairchild, who was convicted as an accomplice in the rape and murder of a 22-year-old Air Force nurse.
Fairchild’s attorneys cited evidence that young black men were rounded up and beaten in an attempt to coerce a confession to the 1983 rape and killing of 2nd Lt. Marjorie Mason. Fairchild, 36, had been scheduled to die by lethal injection tonight at Cummins State Prison.
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