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Cummins Unit houses the State of Arkansas execution chamber. Male death row inmates are located at the Arkansas Department of Correction Varner Unit's Supermax, while the executions are performed at the Cummins Unit, adjacent to Varner. [15] The female death row is located at the McPherson Unit. In 1999 the female death row was newly ...
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 ).
Mark Edward Gardner (May 4, 1956 – September 8, 1999) was an American murderer executed at the age of 43 by lethal injection by the state of Arkansas.He was convicted of the December 12, 1985 murders of Joe and Martha Joyce, as well as the rape and murder of their daughter, Sara Joyce McCurdy, in Sebastian County, Arkansas.
Arkansas death row inmate Ledell Lee maintained his innocence in the 1993 murder of Debra Reese up until his April 2017 execution.
Cummins housed Arkansas's male death row until 1986, when it was transferred first to the Tucker Maximum Security Unit. The State of Arkansas execution chamber is located in the Cummins Unit, adjacent to the location of the male death row, the Varner Unit. [10] The female death row is located at the McPherson Unit. [11]
Cummins Unit serves as a parent unit for male prisoners and houses the State of Arkansas execution chamber. Male death row inmates are located at the Varner Unit's Supermax, while the executions are performed at the Cummins Unit, adjacent to Varner. [38] The female death row is located at the McPherson Unit. In 1999 the female death row was ...
Arkansas put a convicted killer to death Thursday night -- the last of a controversial series of executions carried out before its lethal drug expired.
In March 2017, Asa Hutchinson, the state governor of Arkansas, announced that a batch of eight death row prisoners in total would be executed in the following month of April. The spate of executions was scheduled to take place over ten days between April 17, and April 27, 2017, and a double execution would happen every three days within the 11 ...