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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
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…
LITTLE ROCK — Two pharmaceutical companies objected to legislative efforts to expand the secrecy surrounding the source of Arkansas' lethal injection drugs, sa…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…