by - March 16, 2025 6:19 am
If Gov. Sarah Sanders signs into law HB 1489, Arkansas executions could begin again. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Jeff Wardlaw, R-Hermitage, and Sen. Blake Johnson, R-Corning, would allow nitrogen…
by - June 4, 2020 5:49 pm
While no time estimate was provided on when executions may continue in Arkansas, the office of Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge said it is working with Gov. Asa Hutchinson and…
by - November 7, 2017 5:00 pm
The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled late Tuesday (Nov. 7) to grant a stay for the planned execution of death row inmate Jack Greene. Attorneys for Greene, who was set to…
by - November 3, 2017 4:03 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Friday (Nov. 3) that the planned execution of Arkansas death row inmate Jack Greene is on schedule for next week, despite concerns the prisoner is mentally…
by - August 25, 2017 10:54 am
Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Friday (Aug. 25) set the date for the state Department of Corrections to execute death-row inmate Jack Greene on Nov. 9, 2017, opening the door for…
by - August 17, 2017 7:01 pm
Now that the Arkansas Department of Corrections (ADC) has a necessary supply of the lethal injection drugs, Attorney General Leslie Rutledge on Thursday (Aug. 18) sent a letter to Gov….
by - May 8, 2017 5:18 pm
If the old fairy tale character Goldilocks were a candidate for political office, it’s fair to assume she’d be considered moderate. Of course, she’d be criticized on social media by…
by - April 30, 2017 9:54 am
Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, R-Ark., said the earliest Arkansas could see a restart of the execution process is in mid-May when a stay of execution for Jason McGehee will expire….
by - April 30, 2017 9:54 am
Senate President Jonathan Dismang, R-Searcy, said he thinks it’s premature to investigate circumstances surrounding state prison officials’ acquisition of lethal injection drugs. The state Senate’s leader also said this week’s…
by - April 29, 2017 6:33 pm
U.S. District Court Judge Kristine Baker has ordered the state to collect blood and sample tissues from and conduct an autopsy on the body of Kenneth Williams, the death row…
by - April 28, 2017 11:55 am
Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Friday (April 29) said he will limit next week’s special session primarily to items involving health care and he announced plans to cut the fiscal year…
by - April 28, 2017 6:37 am
At 11:05 p.m. on Thursday night, Kenneth B. Williams became the fourth Arkansas death-row inmate to die by lethal injection at the hands of the state in the period of…
by - April 27, 2017 11:31 pm
Pleas for mercy from the family of one of his victims to Gov. Asa Hutchinson wasn’t enough to stop Thursday’s (April 27) execution of death row inmate Kenneth Williams. The…
by - April 26, 2017 7:16 pm
The European Union’s ambassador to the U.S. has forwarded a letter to Gov. Asa Hutchinson from the 28-member state alliance asking him to halt the execution of Kenneth Williams on…
by - April 26, 2017 6:58 pm
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette political columnist takes his weekly turn at the Talk Business & Politics roundtable to discuss Arkansas’ recent execution drama as well as what it was like to cover…
by - April 26, 2017 11:33 am
On April 21, Ledell Lee’s execution began at 11:44 p.m. when the first drops of the sedative medazolam entered his veins. It ended 12 minutes later, four minutes before midnight….
by - April 25, 2017 7:38 pm
One day after Arkansas’ Cummins Unit prison facility was the site of the nation’s first double execution in 17 years, a commission in Oklahoma is recommending a moratorium on the…
by - April 25, 2017 6:31 am
Arkansas reportedly became the first state since 2000 to execute two death row inmates on the same day Monday night at the Cummins Unit on the Arkansas Department of Correction…
by - April 23, 2017 10:00 pm
When journalist Jaide Garcia arrived at the Cummins Unit around 3 p.m. on Thursday, it was hot and sticky. Inside the prison at that same time, convicted killer Ledell Lee…
by - April 21, 2017 12:08 am
Convicted killer Ledell Lee didn’t utter a single word moments before a lethal drug cocktail was injected into his body Thursday night inside Arkansas’ Death Row chamber in Varner. Lee,…
