2025 in Arkansas
overview of Arkansas-related events during the year of 2025
The following is a list of events of the year 2025 in Arkansas.
Incumbents
State government
Governor: Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R)
Events
February 27 – A legislative panel voted 10-5 to grant approval to a Bill that would allow the state to execute criminals by nitrogen hypoxia, a method first used by Alabama in 2024, and it advanced to the House for further review.
March 3 – Severe thunderstorms and tornado watches are issued across Southern Arkansas.
March 4 – The Arkansas House of Representatives votes by a majority vote of 67-23 for the nitrogen hypoxia death penalty method bill.
March 11 – The Arkansas Senate votes by a majority vote of 26-9 for the nitrogen hypoxia death penalty method bill.
March 18 – The Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signs the nitrogen hypoxia death penalty bill into law. Arkansas becomes the fifth state in the US joining Alabama, Oklahoma Mississippi and Louisiana to allow executions by nitrogen hypoxia.
April – The Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signs into law a bill that mandates the display of the Ten Commandments and In God We Trust in Arkansas classrooms.
May 25 – Grant Hardin, a former Gateway Police chief and convicted murderer and rapist known as "The Devil in the Ozarks", escapes from the North Central Unit in Calico Rock. Surveillance footage shows Hardin walking out of the prison dressed in a guard's uniform.
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