Arkansas on Wednesday set execution dates for eight convicted murderers starting in October and running until January as the state moved to carry out its first death sentences in a decade under orders by Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson.
Hutchinson's plans call for two executions by lethal injection on a single day in each of the next four months.
The governor scheduled the order of executions of the eight condemned men based on the time passed since the crimes, with the man convicted in the oldest case to be executed first and the rest in the chronological order of the murders.