The Nation - News from April 9, 1986
A 16-year-old Death Row inmate thought to be the nation’s youngest was granted a stay of his scheduled Saturday execution by the Arkansas Supreme Court. Ronald C. Ward, who was 15 years old when sentenced in September, was to die by lethal injection one year to the day after the stabbing deaths of two elderly women and their 12-year-old great-nephew, for which he was convicted.
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