SUPREME COURT OF ARKANSAS
Nos.

CR-92-1385 and CR-00-528

DON WILLIAM DAVIS

Opinion Delivered

April 17, 2017

APPELLANT
V.
DISSENTING OPINION.
STATE OF ARKANSAS
APPELLEE
KAREN R. BAKER, Associate Justice

I dissent from the majority’s decision today to take the matter as a case and stay Davis’s
execution. Davis’s mental competency is not at issue and the United States Supreme Court’s
action in McWilliams v. Dunn, 634 F. App’x 698 (11th Cir. 2015) likely has no bearing on
Davis’s case. The United States Supreme Court can enter a stay in Davis’s case if it deems it
appropriate. Accordingly, I dissent.
W OOD, J., joins.