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Apr 24, 2023 · On June 22, 2012, the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled the death penalty law invalid until the state specifies the type and quantity of drug to be used for lethal injections. By 2017, the death penalty was reinstated and the state controversially planned to execute eight men over 11 days, a record pace.
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1820 – First known execution in Arkansas, Thomas Dickinson hung for murder. 1913 – Arkansas replaces hanging with electrocution as its method of execution. 1967 – Arkansas Governor Winthrop Rockefeller declares a moratorium on executions 1970 – Governor Rockefeller grants clemency to all 15 men on death row 1972 – The Supreme Court strikes down the...
Ricky Ray Rector Rector was executed in 1992 for the murder of police officer Robert Martin. After shooting Officer Martin, Rector shot himself in the head in an apparent suicide attempt. The suicide attempt destroyed his frontal lobe and left him severely brain damaged, rendering him incapable of understanding his pending execution. For his last m...
Rickey Dale Newman An Arkansas trial judge dismissed all charges against former death-row prisoner, Rickey Dale Newman on October 11, 2017, exonerating the intellectually disabled man after nearly 16 years imprisonment for a February 2001 murder. The former Marine also was seriously mentally ill and homeless — suffering from major depression and ch...
Governor Winthrop Rockefeller, who declared a moratorium on executions when he took office in 1967, granted clemency to all fifteen men on death row in December of 1970.
In 2009 a near-unanimous Arkansas General Assembly created the Arkansas Legislative Task Force on Criminal Justice. The Task Force’s stated objective was to study judicial districts to determine if there is discrimination in how the most serious felonies, including capital cases, are handled and who is subject to these prosecutions. The Task Force ...
Since the Supreme Court upheld state statutes that reinstated capital punishment in 1976, Arkansas is the only state to have conducted three executions on the same night. It has done so twice: On August 3, 1994, under Governor Jim Guy Tucker, the state executed Hoyt Franklin Clines, Darryl Richley, and James William Holmes. On January 8, 1997, unde...
Dec 16, 2021 · The death penalty in 2021 was defined by two competing forces: the continuing long-term erosion of capital punishment across most of the country, and extreme conduct by a dwindling number of outlier jurisdictions to continue to pursue death sentences and executions.
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Arkansas. Since 1820, a total of 505 individuals have been executed. According to the Arkansas Department of Correction, as of September, 10 2024, a total of 26 men were under a sentence of death in the state.
Oct 11, 2024 · The Arkansas General Assembly passed a new death penalty law in 2013; it faced immediate legal challenges but was ruled constitutional by the Arkansas Supreme Court on March 19, 2015.
NameRaceSexCrimeWILLIAMS, KENNETHBLACKMALECAP/MURDERWILLIAMS, MARCELBLACKMALECAP/MURDERJONES, JACKWHITEMALECAP/MURDERLEE, LEDELLEBLACKMALECAP/MURDERNov 17, 2023 · This report presents statistics on prisoners who were under sentence of death in 2021, a summary of state and federal death penalty laws in 2021, and historical trends in executions.
May 10, 2021 · Since 1973, more than 1,500 people on death row have been executed, while at least 185 people awaiting execution have been exonerated and freed, according to the Death Penalty Information...
