Ward v. State

Donald L. Corbin, Justice.

Appellant Bruce Earl Ward was convicted of the capital murder of eighteen-year-old Rebecca Doss and sentenced to death by lethal injection. This is the third appeal of this matter. In the first appeal, this court affirmed Ward’s capital-murder conviction, but reversed the death sentence and remanded for resentencing. See Ward v. State, 308 Ark. 415, 827 S.W.2d 110, cert. denied, 506 U.S. 841 (1992) (Ward I). The resentencing trial was held on February 9, 1993, resulting in Ward’s being sentenced to death again. On appeal to this court, it was discovered that the…