On July 17, 1885, an African American man named David Akles (sometimes referred to as Ackles) was hanged in He...

Charles Anderson, a twenty-one-year-old Black man, was hanged at Little Rock (Pulaski County) on July 26, 1901...

Clint Anderson was an African American man hanged in Little Rock (Pulaski County) on August 30, 1878, for the ...

A number of vigilance groups were created in the United States in an effort to prevent and punish the theft of...

Three African American men—Dan Jones, Anderson Mitchell, and Willis Green—were hanged on March 15, 1889, i...

Lawrence Dunlap and David Jobe, both Black men, were hanged at Arkansas City (Desha County) on February 28, 19...

The umbrella entity of the Arkansas Department of Corrections, created by Act 910 of 2019, is composed of over...

The Arkansas Division of Community Correction (ADCC) oversees the state’s non-traditional correction program...

The Arkansas Highway Police is the oldest statewide law enforcement agency in Arkansas and serves as the law e...

The Arkansas State Crime Laboratory was established by Act 517 of 1977, Act 864 of 1979, and Act 45 of 1981. T...

A division within the umbrella agency of the Arkansas Department of Public Safety (ADPS), the Arkansas State P...

J. M. Armstrong, convicted in a doctor’s killing that he claimed was in self-defense, was hanged at Perryvil...

William Arterberry, an accused arsonist, was shot to death by a mob at Harrison (Boone County) on October 22, ...

Lee Barnes was hanged at Dover (Pope County) on May 21, 1886, for the murder and robbery of a Conway County ga...

Willis Beard was hanged on May 29, 1857, at Van Buren (Crawford County) for killing a man in the Indian Territ...

Rush Bennett was hanged in El Dorado (Union County) on February 4, 1881, for the murder of a former employer t...

William Binns was hanged in Warren (Bradley County) on June 11, 1880, for the murder of another African Americ...

Jerry Blalock, a young gambler, was hanged at Jacksonport (Jackson County) on May 12, 1883, for a killing he c...

Gus Bogle was a young African American man hanged in Fort Smith (Sebastian County) on July 6, 1888, for the mu...

Brown Brewer, a young African American man, was hanged on May 2, 1873, near Searcy (White County) for the murd...

Alex Brinkley was hanged at Morrilton (Conway County) on October 14, 1898, for the murder of a doctor. He went...

Whit Brown was an African American man hanged in Jefferson County on February 24, 1882, for a murder that he d...

William Brown was executed on October 19, 1838, in Pope County for murdering his pregnant wife. Brown and his ...

Lottie Burgy was a Little Rock (Pulaski County) policeman who worked the West Ninth Street beat from 1942 unti...

Three members of the Burnett Family were hanged in late 1845 for the brutal murder of Johnathan Selby, “a we...

Henry Burnett was a young African American man hanged near Lonoke (Lonoke County) on August 27, 1885, for the ...

Charles Caldwell was an African American man hanged at Jonesboro (Craighead County) on April 29, 1893, in the ...

George Carroll, convicted of drowning his wife, was hanged at Searcy (White County) on April 30, 1886, one of ...

Nathan Carter, who was hanged at Helena (Phillips County) on January 19, 1893, was one of two African American...

James Alexander Cary, a park policeman at Hot Springs National Park from 1923 to 1927, was the first employee ...