Arkansas Executions: What’s Next for the Inmates Who Were Scheduled to Die

If Arkansas had its way, the state would have two fewer inmates on death row today.

Bruce Ward and Don Davis had originally been the first of eight Arkansas inmates scheduled to die within 11 days of each other. But a series of legal challenges has spared the lives of both inmates and thrown the state’s capital punishment process into chaos. Here's where things stand: Court rulings delay executions Late Monday, the U.S.