Arkansas

Protesters gather outside the state Capitol building in Little Rock, Ark., on Friday to voice their opposition to the executions that were scheduled for the next two weeks. On Friday and Saturday, two judges blocked the executions from moving forward; the

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Arkansas' Push To Carry Out Executions Hits Another Roadblock

8:52pm April 17, 2017

by Camila Domonoske

Arkansas had sought to execute eight men before its supply of a lethal injection drug expires. The state Supreme Court stayed the executions of two inmates set for Monday night.

This combination of undated photos provided by the Arkansas Department of Correction shows the death row inmates in question. Top row (from left): Jack Harold Jones Jr., Marcel Williams, Stacey E. Johnson, Ledell Lee. Bottom row (from left): Jason F. McGe

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Courts Block 7 Executions Set For 11-Day Span In Arkansas

8:18pm April 14, 2017

A county judge and the state supreme court ordered the state not to put the inmates to death. The larger case challenges lethal drugs. The other argues that the inmate is not sane.

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Federal Judge Blocks 1 Of 8 Upcoming Executions In Arkansas

4:32pm April 06, 2017

by Camila Domonoske

Arkansas was preparing to execute the inmates before one of its lethal-injection drugs expired. District Judge D. Price Marshall Jr. said one inmate's clemency bid requires the state to wait 30 days.

Melissa Cassidy testifies before the Arkansas Parole Board on March 24 in Little Rock, Ark. The board was considering a clemency request from inmate Stacey Johnson, who was convicted of killing Cassidy's sister, Carol Heath, and is scheduled for execution

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Arkansas Readies For 8 Executions, Despite Outcry Over Pace, Method

2:21pm March 31, 2017

by Camila Domonoske

The state hasn't carried out an execution in more than a decade, but its supply of the sedative midazolam expires at the end of April. So it plans to execute eight men over 11 days.

Researchers used online data to model the vaccination rate in communities affected by an outbreak of mumps in Arkansas.

Social Media, Math And The Mystery Of A Mumps Outbreak

8:33pm March 22, 2017

by Maimuna Majumder

Since August 2016, there have been nearly 3,000 cases of mumps diagnosed in Arkansas. A epidemiologist explains how her team used online data and mathematical modeling to understand the outbreak.

On of the notices posted marking the dual holiday honoring Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., as posted at a Senate Education Committee hearing in Little Rock, Ark. Gov. Asa Hutchinson plans to sign into l

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Arkansas To Split Its Holidays For Martin Luther King Jr. And Robert E. Lee

11:51am March 20, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

Since 1985, the state has celebrated the civil rights icon and Confederate general on the same day. A bill set to be signed into law removes Lee from King's federal holiday, bumping him to October.

The Clintons attend a 2011 dedication ceremony for a pedestrian bridge in Little Rock, Ark., located adjacent to former President Bill Clinton's presidential library.

Arkansas Weighs Whether To Remove The Clinton Name From Little Rock's Airport

3:15pm March 01, 2017

by Sarah Whites-Koditschek

A Republican lawmaker says "the state of Arkansas would just like to forget the Clinton era."

Arkansas state Sen. Bart Hester, defends his bill preventing local governments from passing their own anti-discrimination laws. On Thursday, a Fayetteville law was struck down by the state Supreme Court.

Arkansas Supreme Court Strikes Down Local Anti-Discrimination Law

3:11pm February 23, 2017

by Rebecca Hersher

The court ruled that a Fayetteville, Ark., law protecting LGBT people violated a state law barring cities from protecting people from discrimination who are not already covered at the state level.

A photo released by the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office shows Gary Eugene Holmes. The U.S. Marshals Service said Holmes, accused of fatally shooting a 3-year-old boy in Little Rock last Saturday, was arrested Thursday.

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Police Arrest Suspect In Toddler's Road-Rage Death In Arkansas

3:23pm December 23, 2016

by Bill Chappell

The arrest comes nearly one week after the boy, Acen King, was shot while on a shopping trip with his grandmother.

Former Sen. Dale Bumpers, seen here in 2013, has died at age 90.

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Former Arkansas Gov. Dale Bumpers Dies At 90

3:37pm January 02, 2016

by Bill Chappell

Years after urging his Senate colleagues not to undo a national election because Bill Clinton had been unfaithful to his wife, Bumpers wrote a memoir titled The Best Lawyer in a One Lawyer Town.