Arkansas's Electric Chair

1913 - 1964

168 Executions

Arkansas chairs

Arkansas's: 2 electric chairs. The first was used from 1913-1964. The second was built in the seventies and has been used only once, for the electrocution of John Swindler in 1990. Arkansas offers electrocution for any inmate who committed a capital offense prior to or on 4 July 1983, whether they were convicted of that crime at the time or not. Lethal injection is the only method available for capital offenses committed after 4 July 1983.

Arkansas's electric chair was manufactured from the wood of the state gallows which it replaced in 1913.