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Arkansas Supreme Court Decision Allows New DNA Testing in Case of the ​“West Memphis Three,” Convicted of Killing Three Children in 1993

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On April 18, 2024, the Arkansas Supreme Court decided 4-3 to reverse a 2022 lower court decision and allow genetic testing of crime scene evidence from the 1993 killing of three eight-year-old boys in West Memphis. The three men convicted in 1994 for the killings were released in 2011 after taking an Alford plea, in which they maintained their innocence but plead guilty to the crime, in exchange for 18 years’ time served and 10 years of a suspended sentence. 

Saudi man executed for murder of compatriot

December 21, 2010: A Saudi man sentenced to death for killing a fellow citizen was beheaded on Tuesday in the Red Sea industrial city of Yanbu, said the interior ministry.

Mitaab Al Sanani, shot dead another Saudi, Nayef Al Dhabiani, the ministry said in a statement published through state news agency SPA, without giving further details.

Source: AFP, December 21, 2010

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