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GOULD, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — An Arkansas man who has been on death row for more than seven years is asking for his case to be streamlined after years of back and forth between him and the judge.

Scotty Gardner, 65, is on death row for strangling and killing his girlfriend at a Conway hotel in 2016. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 2018. Gardner has served two previous stints in state prisons for separate crimes.

Court documents say that in 2020, Gardner asked the Arkansas Supreme Court to order his sentence. In a June 2020 filing, Gardner said, "I will accept any of the 5 executions — gun, gas, rope, [electric] chair, drugs."

Since 2022, Gardner has been writing letters to the F

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