ROGERS (KFSM) -- After 10 years, executions in Arkansas will resume next month, and a man who killed a Rogers woman will one of the first to be put to death.
Don Davis will be executed on Oct. 21. after he shot Jane Daniel execution-style in October 1990. He has been on death row 23 years.
"The only thing I can do is beg for forgiveness, and say how sorry I am, and I know that is very hollow," Davis said in a 2007 jailhouse interview.
Davis' execution was put on hold for years after another death row inmate filed a lawsuit claiming the lethal injection drugs used in Arkansas were painful and inhumane.
"They made these choices and with choices come consequences," Rep. Rebecca Petty, R-District 94, said.
Petty has been waiting for executions to resume for years. Her daughter's killer, Karl Roberts, was sentenced to death in May 2000 for kidnapping, raping and strangling Andi Brewer.
"She is forever stuck at the age of 12, and she was taken away from our family in such a brutal horrific manner," Petty said.
Unlike the eight inmates scheduled to die in the next few months, Roberts has not exhausted all of his appeals, but Petty said she has hope that some day soon she will see justice for her daughter.
"To bring the close to that chapter and that entire saga, it is just a big relief," Petty said.
The last person to be sentenced to death row was Zachary Holly in May 2015. He was convicted of raping and strangling six-year-old Jersey Bridgeman in Bentonville in 2012.