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- JANUARY 24, 2001ArkansasDEATH PENALTY
A bill that would make murder of a child 12 or younger...
A bill that would make murder of a child 12 or younger an aggravating circumstance for purposes of imposing the death penalty easily won approval in the Arkansas House of Representatives
- JANUARY 1, 2001ArkansasDEATH PENALTY
Arkansas forbids the execution of the mentally retarded...
Arkansas forbids the execution of the mentally retarded but does not forbid the execution of juvenile offenders
- DECEMBER 19, 2000ArkansasDEATH PENALTY
David Dewayne Johnson, 37, black, was executed by lethal...
David Dewayne Johnson, 37, black, was executed by lethal injection in Cummins Prison, Varner
- MAY 2, 2000ArkansasDEATH PENALTY
Christina Marie Riggs, 28, white was executed by lethal...
Christina Marie Riggs, 28, white was executed by lethal injection
- JANUARY 1, 2000ArkansasDEATH PENALTY
Arkansas forbids the execution of the mentally retarded...
Arkansas forbids the execution of the mentally retarded but does not forbid the execution of juvenile offenders
- DECEMBER 21, 1999ArkansasDEATH PENALTY
On December 21, Christina Riggs, the only woman on...
On December 21, Christina Riggs, the only woman on death row in Arkansas, said she was ready to die and told a Pulaski County judge she wanted no more appeals made on her behalf
- FEBRUARY 1, 1999ArkansasDEATH PENALTY
Johnie Michael Cox, 42, a triple-murderer who claimed...
Johnie Michael Cox, 42, a triple-murderer who claimed that he might be immune to the poisons used to kill death row inmates was executed by injection on 2 February
- JANUARY 1, 1999ArkansasDEATH PENALTY
Governor Mike Huckabee commuted the death sentence...
Governor Mike Huckabee commuted the death sentence of Bobby Ray Fretwell to a sentence of life without parole
- JANUARY 1, 1999ArkansasDEATH PENALTY
Arkansas forbids the execution of the mentally retarded...
Arkansas forbids the execution of the mentally retarded but does not forbid the execution of juvenile offenders