Arkansans’ killer executed by U.S.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — The U.S. government on Tuesday morning executed a man convicted 21 years ago of killing a rural Arkansas family and dumping their bodies in…
Death penalty in Arkansas
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Judge blocks federal executions; administration appeals
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — A U.S. district judge on Monday ordered a new delay in federal executions, hours before the first lethal injection was scheduled to be carr…
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Arkansas Supreme Court justices deny rehearing to death row inmate Stacey Johnson
The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday declined to reconsider its decision last year to deny DNA retesting for Stacey Johnson, a convicted killer living on dea…
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Arkansas inmate cites mental illness in death penalty appeal
LITTLE ROCK — An Arkansas death row inmate convicted of killing a state legislator's daughter was diagnosed with schizophrenia and should not be executed, his …
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Court blocks new DNA test in 1993 Arkansas killing
The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday denied a death-row inmate's appeal for new DNA testing on evidence from a decades-old slaying in De Queen, shutting the …
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Arkansas judge asks to handle execution-related cases again
LITTLE ROCK — An Arkansas judge who participated in an anti-death penalty demonstration outside the governor's mansion two years ago has asked the state Suprem…
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Judge vacates Arkansas man's death sentence in 1994 Texas case
HOUSTON — A judge has vacated the federal death sentence for an Arkansas man convicted of killing a 16-year-old Texas girl in 1994, concluding the inmate can't…
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Panel: No testimony from justices in Arkansas judge's ethics hearing over anti-death penalty demonstration
LITTLE ROCK — A disciplinary panel said Friday that Arkansas Supreme Court justices don't have to testify in an ethics hearing over a judge's participation in …
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Nebraska must give lethal injection info to Arkansas lawyers
LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska must turn over information to Arkansas death row inmates' attorneys about where it acquired a drug that was used in a recent lethal in…
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Drugmakers object to Arkansas execution secrecy measure
LITTLE ROCK — Two pharmaceutical companies objected to legislative efforts to expand the secrecy surrounding the source of Arkansas' lethal injection drugs, sa…
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Bill filed to limit last meals for Arkansas prisoners
Legislation was filed Wednesday to limit the last meals of prisoners on the night of their execution to food that is already available within the prison.
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Last of Arkansas execution drugs expire, law fix sought
LITTLE ROCK — The last of Arkansas' lethal injection drugs expired on Thursday, and legislators in the coming weeks are expected to consider changes to state l…
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Arkansas death-penalty law ruled illegal; competency determination denies due process, justices find
A state law that grants Arkansas' prison director the authority to make determinations of competency of death-row inmates ahead of their executions was declare…
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Two on death row urge state justices to strike down law
Attorneys for two death-row inmates who were spared from execution last year asked Arkansas' highest court on Thursday to strike down a law that gives the stat…
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Arkansas says executions unlikely before spring 2019
LITTLE ROCK — A federal judge Friday delayed a trial over Arkansas' lethal injection method after an attorney for the state said it is "highly unlikely" the st…
