Arkansas Fights to Execute Two Men Without Testing DNA Evidence That Could Exonerate Them - The Intercept

Damien Echols, who was released from death row after he was exonerated in 2011, at the Capital Hotel in Little Rock, Ark., April 14, 2017. Echols returned to Arkansas to implore Gov. Asa Hutchinson to abandon his plan to execute seven convicted murderers in a span of 10 days, a rate unprecedented in the modern history of the American death penalty. (Tamir Kalifa/The New York Times)

Arkansas Fights to Execute Two Men Without Testing DNA Evidence That Could Exonerate Them

As a planned execution spree falls apart, Arkansas refuses to confront its history of sending innocent people to die.