Only Monday, Gov. Jeb Bush set execution dates next week for two death row inmates, after the Supreme Court lifted stays that had been issued in those cases pending the justices' decision in Ring.
Louisiana, Oklahoma and South Dakota have also set execution dates.
Texas's system also contains some special features, like the power of district attorneys to set execution dates.
Despite the apparent conflict of interest, the death sentence was reinstated, and outgoing Republican Governor Tom Corbett set an execution date for March 4, 2015.
The documents also show that Arkansas obtained vecuronium bromide, a paralytic, in 2016, and potassium chloride, which stops the heart, in March, the week after Hutchinson set the execution dates.
Documents released by the state show that the vecuronium bromide was obtained in 2016 and the potassium chloride in March, the week after Hutchinson set the execution dates, but they reveal little else.
Mr. McVeigh asked Judge Matsch to set an execution date, or order the director of the federal Bureau of Prisons to do so, and asked that his execution take place within 120 days.
President Clinton last month set an execution date of Dec. 12 for another federal inmate, Juan Raul Garza, who was convicted of drug smuggling and murder, to give him enough time to apply for presidential clemency.
On September 7 , 2011 Georgia set Davis's execution date for September 21 , 2011
"Nevertheless," Justice Stevens wrote, "Virginia set an execution date of June 13".
* 2/13/53: Judge Irving R. Kaufman prepares to set an execution date for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
