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Whitmore v. Arkansas, 495 U.S. 149 (1990), is a U.S. Supreme Court Case that held that the Eighth and the Fourteenth Amendments do not require mandatory appellate review of death penalty cases and that individuals cannot file cases as a next friend unless there is a prior relationship to the appellant and unless the appellant is "unable to litigate his own cause due to mental incapacity, lack ...
Williams appealed against his conviction and sentence to the Supreme Court of Arkansas, but the Supreme Court rejected his appeal in 1999. [ 2 ] After exhausting his appeals against his conviction and sentence, Williams filed a post-conviction application, alleging that he had been subjected to inadequate legal representation during his trial.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Arkansas since 1976, when the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in the United States. 31 people have been executed in Arkansas since 1976: 30 males and 1 female ( Christina Marie Riggs ).
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Date of execution Name Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method Ref. At execution At offense Age difference; 1 January 7, 2026 Quisi Bryan: 55 29 26 Male Black Ohio: To be determined: Profile: 2 February 11, 2026 Antonio Sanchez Franklin: 47 18 29 Profile: 3 March 12, 2026 James Earl Trimble: 65 44 21 White Profile: 4 June 17, 2026
Sep. 12—An attorney for an Oklahoma death row inmate claims a previous attorney has more than 40 boxes of case material that needs to be reviewed in his request for a 60-day reprieve of a Sept ...
The dissenting vote was from one member who wanted to stay the execution to give more time to determine if Nance was intellectually disabled. The execution was briefly stayed on November 17 by United States federal judge James Moody of the Eastern District of Arkansas. The stay was vacated by the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals on November 19.