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April 20, 2017

Disabled Vietnam vet says couple robbed him after carrying his groceries in Arkansas

A disabled Vietnam War veteran claimed a couple, who offered to help him with his groceries, attacked and robbed him in his Arkansas home last week.

April 19, 2017

Arkansas inmates set to die Thursday claim innocence

Lawyers for Arkansas inmates condemned to die Thursday in a planned double execution are claiming they are innocent and one of them says advanced DNA techniques could show he didn't kill a woman in 1993.

April 18, 2017

The Latest: Inmate slated to die Thursday due at hearing

The Latest on Arkansas' plans to conduct several executions this month (all times local): 1:20 p.m.

April 18, 2017

Supreme Court denies Arkansas' request to conduct execution

The Supreme Court rejected Arkansas’ request to lift a stay late Monday that would have allowed the state to conduct its first execution since 2005.

April 17, 2017

Arkansas judge barred from execution cases after protest

A judge who lay on a cot as though he were a condemned man on a gurney after issuing an order halting Arkansas' multiple execution plan has been barred from taking up any death penalty-related cases.

April 17, 2017

The Latest: Arkansas tries to reverse execution drug ruling

The Latest on Arkansas' efforts to execute six men by the end of April (all times local): 10:30 a.m.

April 17, 2017

Judge's anti-death penalty protest riles conservatives

An Arkansas judge who temporarily barred the state from executing inmates sparked outrage among conservatives for participating in anti-death penalty rallies before and after he issued his ruling.

April 17, 2017

Arkansas execution plan major test for drug secrecy measures

If Arkansas succeeds in executing multiple inmates by the end of the month, it will show that states have found an effective way of repelling some legal challenges that have thwarted or delayed executions in recent years.

April 17, 2017

Arkansas' multiple execution plan in limbo after rulings

Arkansas' already compromised plan to put eight men to death over 11 days is in limbo after a judge blocked the use of a lethal injection drug that a supplier says officials misleadingly obtained and the state's highest court halted the executions of one of the first inmates who had been scheduled to die.

April 17, 2017

Executing multiple inmates the same day was common, now rare

The last time a state put more than one inmate to death on the same day was more than 16 years ago when Texas executed two condemned killers in back-to-back lethal injections.