Rector v. Clinton

Rickey Ray Rector brought a declaratory judgment action in the Circuit Court against Governor Clinton, Lieutenant Governor Jim Guy Tucker, Attorney General Winston Bryant, Superintendent of Prisons A.L. Lockhart, Department of Human Services Director Terry Yamauchi, Arkansas State Hospital Division Director Jan Thames, and State Hospital Forensic Unit Director O. Wendell Hall. He asked the Circuit Court to declare unconstitutional Ark. Code Ann. § 16-90-506(d)(1) (1987) which describes the manner of determining whether an inmate facing execution is insane and thus not to be executed.

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