The Arkansas Parole Board on Thursday voted unanimously to not recommend clemency for a condemned murderer whose execution is set for November.
The panel voted 6-0, stating that Jack Gordon Greene’s case for clemency was without merit after hearings Wednesday at the Varner Unit and in Little Rock.
The final decision regarding whether Greene will be granted mercy lies with Gov. Asa Hutchinson.
Greene, 62, was convicted and sentenced to death in the 1991 killing of Sidney Burnett, a retired minister, while on the run after killing Greene's brother in North Carolina.
During the hearing Wednesday, Greene told the Parole Board that he wanted his sentence commuted to life only if the state followed an earlier agreement in which he would be extradited to his home state of North Carolina.
The condemned murderer’s federal court-appointed attorneys argued that Greene is unfit to be executed because psychosomatic delusions prevent him from understanding the reality of his punishment.
Greene is scheduled to die by lethal injection Nov. 9.
Read Friday’s Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for full details.
Information for this article was contributed by John Moritz of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.