(AP) — Arkansas plans to execute eight inmates in a 10-day period next month — an accelerated schedule designed to carry out the death sentences before a chemical component of the lethal injections expires. Ward, 60, has been on death row since 1990 for the death of a clerk found strangled in the men's room of the Little Rock convenience store where she worked. A police officer noticed no one was in the store and pulled up to find Ward walking out of the men's room. Surveillance video later revealed that Ward asked Doss for help to open the men's room door. Ward's initial death sentence was overturned because a judge let jurors consider documents related to Ward's 1977 murder conviction in Pennsylvania. A second death sentence was overturned because a court transcript was filled with errors. A trial in that death ended with a hung jury, and prosecutors dropped the case after the state Supreme Court upheld Lee's death sentence for Reese's murder. Jones, 52, was convicted of killing bookkeeper Mary Phillips and trying to kill her daughter Lacy during a 1995 robbery at an accounting office. Jones claimed after his conviction that his lawyers had failed him by not attempting to prove the murder was committed in a cruel or depraved manner. Police found the woman's hosiery and lunch cooler at a storage facility, then found her beaten and bound body in a park two weeks later. Several people beat and tortured the teenager at house in Harrison, then bound him and drove him to an abandoned farmhouse outside Omaha in northern Arkansas. Williams, 38, was serving a life sentence for the 1998 death of University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff cheerleader Dominque Hurd when he escaped by hiding in a container of hog slop that was being ferried from the prison kitchen to a prison hog farm outside the main gates.
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