A 2017 controversy about the death penalty in Arkansas was one of the top judicial ethics stories in 2018, resulting in cross judicial discipline complaints by a circuit court judge and the supreme court justices and other legal proceedings. In 2018, some of those cases were resolved but some remained pending at the end of the year. On June 14, 2019, the discipline complaint against the circuit court judge was dismissed for want of prosecution.  A timeline of the events first posted in February has been up-dated.