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Arkansas Department of Corrections/Handout via REUTERS VARNER, Ark. (AP) — A federal judge temporarily blocked Arkansas from executing a second inmate Monday night after attorneys questioned whether the first execution had gone properly. Jack Jones received a lethal injection earlier Monday evening that lasted 14 minutes. The state was set to execute Marcel Williams about […]
Published time: 24 Apr, 2017 23:54Edited time: 25 Apr, 2017 00:04 Arkansas is set to put to death two men convicted of rape and murder, after their last-ditch efforts appealing to the US Supreme Court were rejected Monday evening. Read more Jack Jones, 52, and Marcel Williams, 46, petitioned the US Supreme Court to halt […]
View this image › This combination of undated file photos provided by the Arkansas Department of Correction shows death-row inmates Jack Jones, left, and Marcel Williams. Arkansas Department of Correction via AP WASHINGTON — If no court steps in, Arkansas is poised to become the first state in more than 15 years to execute two […]
Arkansas Department of Corrections/Handout via REUTERS VARNER, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas has executed an inmate for the first time in nearly a dozen years as part of its plan to execute several inmates before a drug expires April 30, despite court rulings that have already spared three men. Ledell Lee’s execution was the first in the […]
Published time: 21 Apr, 2017 05:21Edited time: 21 Apr, 2017 05:29 The state of Arkansas has executed an inmate for the first time since 2005, and plans to execute several more convicts before its supply of a lethal chemical expires in late April. BREAKING: Arkansas executes inmate, first to die under state’s plan of multiple […]
AP Photo/Kelly P. Kissel VARNER, Ark. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court spared the life of an Arkansas inmate minutes before his death warrant was set to expire Monday, scuttling efforts to resume the death penalty after nearly 12 years in the state with a plan to carry out four double executions before its supply […]
Thomson Reuters Arkansas’ plan to execute seven men by lethal injection over the course of 10 days in April hit a road block Friday when a federal judge moved to block all of the executions by issuing a restraining order against the state’s use of the drug vecuronium bromide. Arkansas was pushing to carry out […]
Published time: 17 Apr, 2017 22:39Edited time: 17 Apr, 2017 22:48 The start of a series of executions in Arkansas has been disrupted. The state supreme court kept two death row inmates alive Monday, but a federal appeals court overturned a lower court’s halt on eight lethal injections planned for the next 10 days. Read […]
Only heterosexual love is in the air in the Arkansas Senate this Valentine’s Day, as lawmakers convened a hearing to decide whether to ask the US Congress to amend the Constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman. The committee hearing considered Senate Joint Resolution 7. If passed by the Arkansas legislature, […]
