Arkansas

Rusty McPhate, also known as “Coach Mac,” is changing lives of children incarcerated in the Sebastian County Juvenile Detention Center

Said that the company that sold state drugs had contracts with manufacturers prohibiting the chemicals from being sold for use in death penalty cases

State Supreme Court found that lower-court judge overstepped by halting executions, but then granted its own stay

Pulaski County Circuit Court Judge Wendell Griffen said the state must identify the manufacturers, distributor, seller or supplier of Arkansas' three lethal injections drugs by Oct. 21

Six men and two women have graduated since the detention center opened more than three months ago

Pulaski County Circuit Court Judge Wendell Griffen issued a stay for all eight of the state's scheduled executions

The case before Pulaski County Circuit Court Judge Wendell Griffen on Wednesday comes two weeks before the first executions scheduled in Arkansas in nearly a decade

An attorney for Ark. DOC Director Wendy Kelley filed the motion to dismiss a complaint from eight death row inmates who argue that the law passed earlier this year is unconstitutional

An inmate hit an electricity pole and the ventilators in the chicken enclosure went offline last month

An India-based company that appears to have made a drug that Arkansas purchased for lethal injections says it doesn't want its products used in the state's plans

A British pharmaceutical company that told Arkansas not to use its products during executions is trying to determine if the state plans to use them anyway

Arkansas will resume lethal injections after a 10-year gap starting next month with the first of four double executions

A spokesman for Hutchinson said the governor did not have an immediate timeline for when he would set the dates

Justin Staton is charged with capital murder in the July 21 killings of Robert and Patricia Cogdell

An additional $7.4 million from Arkansas reserve funds will open 200 more prison beds