Missco native executed

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

When Arkansas Department of Corrections (ADC) staff at the Cummins Unit in Varner executed 51-year old Mississippi County native Ledell “Skip” Lee, Jr. Thursday night (April 20), the State of Arkansas conducted its first execution since 2005 amid an avalanche of legal challenges, appeals and motions that occupied courts ranging from Arkansas Circuit Courts, to the 8th District Federal Court of Appeals and on to the United States Supreme Court.

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