The US state of Arkansas carried out its first execution in nearly a decade, the state’s attorney general said, proceeding despite criticism that its controversial plan to execute several prisoners by ...

A US federal judge on Saturday blocked a series of executions planned by the state of Arkansas, as legal obstacles to the unprecedentedly intense schedule mounted and death-penalty opponents staged ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Department of Correction has bought the drugs needed to resume lethal injections, and Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Thursday he expects to be asked soon to schedule ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Arkansas execution intervention activists are speaking against nitrogen execution after lawmakers claim the act does not violate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Arkansas hasn't carried out an execution since 2017, when four inmates were put to death over eight days before the state's lethal ...

LITTLE ROCK- An Arkansas judge dismissed an effort Tuesday to block the state's unprecedented plan to conduct four double executions over 10 days next month, while a new federal lawsuit argued the ...

Gov. Asa Hutchinson criticized the state's highest court after it issued stays on executions of multiple inmates High-rise in Manhattan to be stabilized after columns buckle, forcing evacuations ...

An Arkansas judge is weighing whether to dismiss a challenge to how the state executes condemned inmates or grant a hearing on the constitutionality of the state's method after the U.S. Supreme Court ...