Arkansas


State update

Link to death penalty and execution statute

(Title 5: subtitle 1: chapter 4: subchapter 6; execution statute in particular is 5-4-617)

Date death penalty reenacted

March 23, 1973

Can a defendant get death penalty for a felony in which s/he was not responsible for the murder?

Yes

How is the sentence determined?

Jury

Location of death row(s)

Grady (Women: Pine Bluff)

Clemency process

Governor has authority to grant clemency with nonbinding advice of Board of Pardons and Paroles

Time of execution (in law and/or by custom)

Not specified

Number of people exonerated from death row since 1973

0

Names of people exonerated from death row since 1973

N/A



Execution Method

Lethal Injection,Electrocution

Total Executions Since State's Reinstatement of the Death Penalty: 27


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