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About 4:00 a.m. on August 23, 1987, the crew on board a 75-car, 6,000-ton Union Pacific freight train, more than a mile long and traveling at a rate more than 50 miles per hour, en route to Little Rock, Arkansas, spotted two boys lying motionless across the tracks, about 300 feet ahead. [1]
Unidentified murder victims in Arkansas (2 P) Pages in category "People murdered in Arkansas" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
John Edward Swindler (May 12, 1944 – June 18, 1990) was an American murderer and suspected serial killer who was executed by the state of Arkansas for the 1976 murder of a Fort Smith police officer. He was also convicted of the murders of two teenagers in Columbia, South Carolina, and was charged but never convicted of another murder in Florida.
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).
People convicted of murder by Arkansas (39 P) L. Lynching deaths in Arkansas (14 P) M. People murdered in Arkansas (1 C, 29 P) S. Murder–suicides in Arkansas (1 P)
James B. Grinder (1945–2010) was an American serial killer and rapist who murdered three teenage girls in Arkansas and a woman in Missouri between 1976 and 1984. [1] Grinder was not apprehended until his confession in March 1998.
Willett was the 4th condemned inmate to be put to death in 1999 in Arkansas and the 21st person executed by the state of Arkansas since Furman v. Georgia , 408 U.S. 238 (1972), after new capital punishment laws were passed in Arkansas and that came into force on March 23, 1973.
Donald Lehman (1933 – January 8, 1981) was an American man who was murdered in front of his family by four men in Arkansas.All four men – James William Holmes, Hoyt Franklin Clines, Michael Orndorff, and Darryl Richley – were convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death, although Orndorff's sentence was reduced to life without parole on appeal.