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Ronald Gene Simmons Sr. (July 15, 1940 – June 25, 1990) was an American mass murderer who killed 16 people over a week-long period in Arkansas in 1987 and wounded several others. A retired military serviceman, Simmons murdered fourteen members of his family, including a daughter he had sexually abused and the child he had fathered with her ...
Robert Martin. Date. March 21/24, 1981. Ricky Ray Rector (January 12, 1950 – January 24, 1992) was an American convicted murderer who was executed for the 1981 murder of police officer Robert Martin in Conway, Arkansas. After killing a man in a restaurant and fleeing, Rector spent three days on the run before he agreed to turn himself in.
The Varner Unit, pictured here, houses the State of Arkansas death row for men. Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Arkansas . Since 1820, a total of 505 individuals have been executed. According to the Arkansas Department of Correction, as of January 16, 2019, a total of 29 men were under a sentence of death in the state.
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 ). All but John Swindler (who was executed by electric chair) were executed by lethal ...
Damien Echols. Damien Wayne Echols (born Michael Wayne Hutchison; December 11, 1974) is an American author, who first became known as one of three teenagers, the West Memphis Three, convicted of a triple murder in 1994 despite the dubious prosecution case and lack of physical evidence. Upon his release from death row in 2011 under an Alford ...
Jorge Avila-Torrez. Murdered 20-year-old Navy Petty Officer Amanda Jean Snell in Virginia . 10 years, 80 days. Northern Neck Regional Jail. 16054-084. Avila-Torrez was later linked to the rapes and murders of eight-year-old Laura Hobbs and nine-year-old Krystal Tobias in his hometown of Zion, Illinois .
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 ...
14 DAYS is a 2014 American science fiction experimental film, written and directed by Joseph Villapaz. It stars Emily Dennis and Michael Wetherbee and takes place in New York City . It has screened at the Alhambra Theatre Film Festival, Motor City Nightmares, NewFilmmakers Spring Screening Series and at the New Jersey Film Festival .