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A senate panel advanced a bill Wednesday that could restart executions in Arkansas.

A Senate committee advances a bill that would allow victims families to witness death row executions. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved Senate Bill 52 on a voice vote Wednesday.

Legislators are expected to hear from the head of the Arkansas Department of Correction after the state's top court threw out a 2009 execution law earlier this year.

An inmate whose death sentence was overturned last year has a court hearing in southern Arkansas.

Lawyers for several Arkansas death row inmates argued Thursday that the state's lethal injection law ought to grant condemned prisoners the same protections extended to animals in a euthanasia law.

Prosecutors say they'll seek the death penalty against a Hughes man charged with capital murder in the shooting death of a 62-year-old woman.

The Arkansas Supreme Court granted a new hearing Thursday for a death-row inmate convicted in a 1997 double murder, ruling that some of his claims, including potential DNA testing problems, should be reviewed.

The Arkansas Supreme Court says the state can seek the death penalty again for a man convicted of capital murder in the killing of a Pine Bluff teenager.