Editing Dover, Arkansas (section)

=== The Simmons massacre ===
On December 22 and 26, 1987, [[Ronald Gene Simmons]], of near Dover, killed all fourteen members of his family during a [[Christmas]] reunion at the Simmons property 5 miles north of Dover. Two days later, he continued his killing spree in the county seat of [[Russellville, Arkansas|Russellville]], having targeted previous employers and co-workers, killing two and wounding two more.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Fox |first1=James Alan |last2=Levin |first2=Jack |title=Firing Back: The Growing Threat of Workplace Homicide |journal=The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science |date=November 1994 |volume=536 |issue=536 |page=23 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1048005 |access-date=March 7, 2023 |publisher=Sage Publications, Inc. in association with the American Academy of Political and Social Science|doi=10.1177/0002716294536001002 |jstor=1048005 |s2cid=144229494 }}</ref> Simmons was arrested without resistance, was [[Capital punishment|sentenced to death]] on December 10, 1989,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Brown |first1=Paul E. |title=Third Party Standing: "Next Friends" as Enemies: Third Party Petitions for Capital Defendants Wishing to Waive Appeal |journal=The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology |date=Winter 1991 |volume=81 |issue=4 |pages=982–984, 990–996 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1143734 |access-date=March 7, 2023 |publisher=Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law |doi=10.2307/1143734 |jstor=1143734 |quote=I, Ronald Gene Simmons, Sr.,  want it to be known that it is my wish and my desire that absolutely  no action by anybody be taken to appeal or in any way change this  sentence. It is further respectfully requested that this sentence be carried out expeditiously}}</ref> waived mandatory appellate review,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Reske |first1=Henry |title=Death Wish, Supreme Court Preview |journal=ABA Journal |date=February 1990 |volume=76 |issue=2 |page=36 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20760883 |access-date=March 7, 2023 |publisher=American Bar Association |jstor=20760883 |quote=The would-be waiverer in the case is Ronald Gene Simmons, the  Arkansas mass murderer who was sentenced to death in 1988.}}</ref> and executed on June 25, 1990, the quickest sentence-to-execution time in the United States since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.