... up for the next session facing a dramatically different situation than two years ago, when he was a newly minted incoming governor. In that session, and a special session called earlier this year, Beebe was successful in pressing lawmakers to ...

... temporarily halted state executions to examine the system's fairness, was quickly denounced by prosecutors, the incoming governor and relatives of some murder victims. "Every one of the victims, he has killed them all over again," said Cathy ...