State lawyers have asked a court to set an execution date for an inmate who unsuccessfully challenged Alabama's lethal injection method as unconstitutional. The Alabama attorney general's office last week asked the Alabama Supreme Court to set an execution date for Thomas Arthur "as soon as possible." The request comes after a federal judge on July 19th ruled for the state and against Arthur's claims that the state's lethal injection method was unconstitutional. Arthur has been on death row since 1983 for the contract killing of Muscle Shoals businessman Troy Wicker in 1982. He's successfully fought off multiple execution dates.