The high court rejected Latavious Johnson's claims his attorneys failed to properly research and present mitigating evidence about his childhood and mental health during the sentencing phase of ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The Arkansas Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by an inmate sentenced to death for killing a prison guard. The court issued its opinion Thursday that a lower court did ...

MARIANNA, Ark. (AP) - An Arkansas inmate already serving life in prison has been sentenced to the death penalty in the stabbing death of a correctional officer. A Lee County jury on Thursday ...

Barbara Ester in 2012. In a unanimous decision, the high court rejected Latavious Johnson's claims that his attorneys failed to properly research and present mitigating evidence about his ...

Sgt. Barbara Ester, 46, was trying to retrieve a pair of unauthorized tennis shoes from inmate Latavious Johnson about 12:30 p.m. when she was stabbed in the abdomen with a 6-inch metal shank at ...

BRICKEYS, Ark. – A female guard was stabbed to death Friday by an inmate at a prison in eastern Arkansas, KTHV-TV reported. Sgt. Barbara Ester was killed by 30-year-old convicted murderer ...

Justices on Thursday rejected Latavious Johnson's argument that he received ineffective assistance from his attorney during the sentencing that followed his capital murder conviction. Johnson was ...

A Lee County jury on Thursday convicted 34-year-old Latavious Johnson of capital murder in the January 2012 death of Cpl. Barbara Ester. Prosecutor Fletcher Long says Johnson stabbed Ester while ...

Sgt. Barbara Ester, 46, was trying to retrieve a pair of unauthorized tennis shoes from inmate Latavious Johnson about 12:30 p.m. when she was stabbed in the abdomen with a 6-inch metal shank at ...