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Ricky Rector was executed on January 24, 1992 in Arkansas.



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Context
Ricky Rector was the 160th person executed in the United States since 1976, the 3rd person executed in Arkansas, and the 64th person executed by lethal injection.
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The Next to Die uses data from the Death Penalty Information Center combined with reporting from The Marshall Project and our partners.
Additional research by Maya Bernstein
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