GRADY — Arkansas had not carried out the death penalty since 2005, but that changed on Thursday when Ledell Lee was executed for the murder of Debra Reese of Jacksonville.Lee was convicted in 1995 of Reese’s 1993 killing, and for the next 22 years Lee’s case made its way through the legal system until he was declared dead at 11:56 p.m. Thursday.The state used a three-drug cocktail to carry out Lee’s execution at the Department of Correction’s [...]
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